1To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 1 February 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
from Pietro Tellamanzie at 18 crazie per bottle, or 225 paolis total, with additional charges of 10 paolis for cases and straw and 16 paolis for transportation from Pisa, duties, and porterage. He calculated that the total of 251 paolis converted to $26.40 (
2To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Claxton, 13 June 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
was a popular and more expensive floor covering than straw or
3To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 6 April 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
Straw Wax
4To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Bruff, 16 December 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
...bed steads, to superceed the necessity of screwing them and lacing the sacking: I have modeld here, a machine for treading wheat, cheap and simple, avoiding the fault of those lately patented, such as leaving in the straw, from 60, to 100 bushels of a thousand, and cuting off the heads where the straw is unsound. I have pland a grist mill; to be set up like a coffee mill, and turnd by hand;...
5To Thomas Jefferson from Joseph Dougherty, 31 December 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Oats Straw worth
6To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Mann Randolph, 14 June 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
...Corn, oats Hay and Butcher meat Butter &c without damage to the Land, which I am quite clear in opinion had better be cultivated well even in corn frequently than be suffered to get covered with broom-straw. I have no doubt, though I cannot say I have any certainty, that he would be satisfied with this arrangement and gladly take his hopes from a share of the crop for increase of salary. I...
7To Thomas Jefferson from Thomas Appleton, 1 May 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
The transportation from florence by the Arno. with porterage, bottling, Cases, Straw, Corks, ropes, transporting on board &ca. &ca.
8To Thomas Jefferson from George White, 15 August 1805 (Jefferson Papers)
...a moment to address you on a subject that cannot fail to prove advantageous to the country. it is very well known that a considerable sum of money goes annually from hence to England to purchase platted straw for hats, as the manufacture there is far preferred to any other. I take the liberty of enclosing a specimen of that plat done by my wife, who possesses the ability as well as the...
9To Thomas Jefferson from George Ic, 9 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
season past, with Beautifull Straw, of Wheat Rie Speltz oats Barly Buckwheat [&c]. this last Season of Summer I had two rapped groths of red clover on a bank of a little run of water, on the opposite bank I had timothy...
10To Thomas Jefferson from Stephen Cathalan, Jr., 27 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
...president does not like older vintages but prefers them “a little Liquor,” that is, sweeter; they can supply Pierce Butler with virgin white wine next winter and could also provide him with “Straw colour hermitage wine much better than that,” their father being the only grower capable of producing such wine in that country; they will pack the wine in earthen bottles that weigh less and...