1John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 6 May 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
ch Such questions as this, I consider myself, like one of those little Eels in Vinaigre, or one of those Animalcules in black or red Peper or in the Horse radish Root, that bite our Tongues So cruelly, reasoning upon the
21771. Saturday June 8th. (Adams Papers)
Bespoke Entertainment for the Sabbath, at Shalers, and drank Tea. She brought me in the finest and sweetest of Wheat Bread, and Butter, as yellow as Gold, and fine Radishes, very good Tea and sugar. I regaled without Reserve. But my Wife is 150 Miles from me at least, and I am not yet homeward bound. I wish Connecticutt River flowed through Braintree. But the barren rocky...
3From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 6 May 1816 (Adams Papers)
...is the Cause proximate or remote.” When I approach Such questions as this, I consider myself, like one of those little Eels in Vinaigre, or one of those Animalcules in black or red Peper or in the Horse radish Root, that bite our Tongues So cruelly, reasoning upon the
4[June 1771] (Adams Papers)
Bespoke Entertainment for the Sabbath, at Shalers, and drank Tea. She brought me in the finest and sweetest of Wheat Bread, and Butter, as yellow as Gold, and fine Radishes, very good Tea and sugar. I regaled without Reserve. But my Wife is 150 Miles from me at least, and I am not yet homeward bound. I wish Connecticutt River flowed through Braintree. But the barren rocky...
5[Spring 1759.] (Adams Papers)
...different sorts. Colly flower, sellery, &c. Peas, different sorts. Beans, English and others, different sorts, white black, red, large, small, &c. Turnips. Bates for rats. Parsnips, Parsley, Pepper Grass, Horse radish, Mustard, Onions, shyves
6Memorandum from Robert Bailey, [January 1795] (Jefferson Papers)
4 oz Turnip Radish
7To Benjamin Franklin from Jacques Finck: Proposed Agreement, 1 February 1784 (Franklin Papers)
...were to consist of a roast of either beef, veal, or mutton, a platter of chicken or game, two side dishes, two platters of vegetables, one platter of pastry with hors d’oeuvres of butter, radishes, and pickles, and the following items for dessert: fresh fruit (two kinds in winter and four in summer), two kinds of stewed fruits, a cheese platter with biscuits and sweets, and ice cream once...
8The Cravenstreet Gazette, 22–26 September 1770 (Franklin Papers)
...is, that there was provided, and actually smoaking on the Table under his Royal Nose at the same Instant, as fine a Piece of Ribbs of Beef, roasted, as ever Knife was put into; with Potatoes, Horse radish, pickled Walnuts, &c. which Beef his Highness might have eaten of, if so he had pleased to do; and which he forbore to do, merely from a whimsical Opinion (with Respect be it spoken) that...
9Thomas Jefferson to Randolph Jefferson, 2 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
radish.
10From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, 5 March 1795 (Jefferson Papers)
...your clover seed did not sprout, I have advised the leaving it unsowed till you come. I shall not sow mine till the last week in March. I had your bags of clover seed emptied to search for the radish seed, but no such thing was in them. There was a paper of clover seed found in one of them, which I suppose has been put in by mistake for the other. If this finds you in Richmond... ...radish...
11From Thomas Jefferson to Gibson & Jefferson, 13 April 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
3. oz. radish seed. scarlet preferredof a shipment from London of “peas, beans, cabbage, lettuce, radishes, &c.” for sale from his seed store in Richmond (Richmond
12From Thomas Jefferson to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 10 January 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
...to be detained here a week or 10. days after the 4th. of March. this will be unfavorable to our forwardest garden provisions. can you have a sowing or two of the forwardest peas, lettuces, radishes &c. made at Edgehill to fill up the chasm till the first Monticello sowings, which cannot be till the middle of March. I have not heard lately from Jefferson or Anne. present me affectionately to...
13Thomas Jefferson: A General Gardening Calendar, 21 May 1824, 21 May 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
and Radishes.
14To James Madison from Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 7 July 1809 (Madison Papers)
½ lb. Early frame Radish1 lb. Black & White Winter Radish mixed
15Seed Order for James Madison, Sr., 26 March 1791 (Madison Papers)
Salmon radishBlack Spanesh radish
16To Thomas Jefferson from Martha Jefferson Randolph, 31 May 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...of breathing amounting allmost to suffocation I was much allarmed my self Mr Randolph has since affirmed it to have been hysterics but I certainly know him to be wrong there it was occasioned by eating radishes & milk at the same meal both of which are unfriendly to my stomack and the affection of the speech of which I was very sensible at the time proves it to have been some thing...
17James Ronaldson to Thomas Jefferson, 4 March 1810 (Jefferson Papers)
food; radishes [index entry] radishes [index entry]
18Enclosure: Invoice to Robert Cary & Company, 23 June 1766 (Washington Papers)
...of 4 kinds—a Peck of each—some of them to be of the very earliest kinds that can be got 1 Oz. of early Cabbage Seed 1 Oz. of Latter Do Do 6 Oz. of Crimson & Scarlet Radish Do 1 Do best Savoy Do 1 Oz. Lettice Do 1 Do Scarlet Onion Do 1 pr best Buckskin Breeches pr measure sent—to have broad kneebands & a pair of plain Oval Silver knee buckles for Do to...
19To Thomas Jefferson from James Wilkinson, 21 March 1824 (Jefferson Papers)
Onion, Tomato, Beets, Lettuce, Artichoke, Radish, Parsly, Turnips—