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Enclosure: Thomas Jefferson’s Account with Mathew Carey & Son, [ca. 13 July 1820]

Enclosure

Account with Mathew Carey & Son

[ca. 13 July 1820]

Dr Thos Jefferson Esqr in A/C with M Carey & son Cr
1819 1819
Mar 19  To Merchdze1 75 Feby 2  By Balance 25
sep 28  To  do2 5 75 Balance card down 21 25
Oct 7  To  do 5
Nov 19  To  do3 10
$ 21 50 $ 21 50
To Balance brt down 21 25
To binding Baines Wars 2
$ 23 25

MS (MHi); in the hand of a representative of Mathew Carey & Son; undated; conjoined with covering letter; with some lines previously drawn in red ink.

1TJ here added “Price book” (i.e., The House Carpenters’ Book of Prices, and Rules for measuring and valuing all their different kinds of work [Philadelphia, 1812; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 6 (no. 243)]).

2TJ here added “Carter’s Epictetus.”

3TJ here added “Thomson’s Bible.”

Index Entries

  • Baines, Edward; History of the Wars of the French Revolution search
  • books; binding of for TJ search
  • books; classical search
  • books; of builders’ prices search
  • books; on French Revolution search
  • books; on history search
  • Carey, Mathew; publishesThe House Carpenters’ Book of Prices search
  • Carter, Elizabeth; translatesStoici Philosophi Encheiridion item (Epictetus) search
  • Epictetus (Greek philosopher); Stoici Philosophi Encheiridion item (trans. E. Carter) search
  • History of the Wars of the French Revolution (E. Baines) search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; binding of books search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Business & Financial Affairs; account with Mathew Carey & Son search
  • Mathew Carey & Son (Philadelphia firm); and books for TJ search
  • Mathew Carey & Son (Philadelphia firm); TJ’s account with search
  • Stoici Philosophi Encheiridion item (Epictetus; trans. E. Carter) search
  • The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Covenant (C. Thomson) search
  • The House Carpenters’ Book of Prices, and Rules for measuring and valuing all their different kinds of work; published by M. Carey search
  • Thomson, Charles; The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Covenant search