1From Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Mann Randolph, Jr., 21 January 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
I received the day before yesterday your’s of the 9th. From an expression in that, as well as the preceding one, I fear you may not have received my letters which have been regular and constant once a week, except once when the post day was perceived to be changed. I then accomodated the day of my writing to the day of the departure of the Western post from Richmond.—I have received...
2Enclosure: Instructions on Timber for Monticello, [ca. 21 January 1793] (Jefferson Papers)
Scantling for the operations of 1793 10. Sleepers. 23. feet long: 10 Inches deep. 4. Inches thick. 30. do. 12. feet long. same depth and breadth. 17. do. 18. feet long. same depth and breadth. 10. do. 23. feet long } all these are to be triangular, and to be got in the manner pointed out on the next page. 30. do. 12. feet long 17. do. 18. feet long. 10. do.