11From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 26 January 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
As I must carry thorn plants home in the spring to fill up the vacancies in my hedges, I must now get you to take the trouble of walking round the whole of the two thorn enclosures, and counting exactly how many are wanting. there should be one every 6. inches. then count how many plants are living in the thorn nursery, and send me the numbers, that I may be able to procure here the proper...
12From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 8 February 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Your’s of Jan. 30. is recieved. I now inclose you 350. Dollars towit for James Walker 100. D. John Perry 150. Hugh Chisolm 50. yourself on account 50 350. the sum of 50. D. inclosed for yourself is sent because mr Perry wrote me word it was wanting for some sawing done. you can enquire into that and apply it to that or any thing more pressing as you please: I should have no objection to the...
13From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 1 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I suppose Davy will set out tomorrow, and of course that he will hardly be back to Monticello before the 13th. in the mean time the season is advancing. I think therefore you had better take up the thorns in the Nursery, & plant them in the hedge of the South orchard as soon as the weather becomes favorable for it. the plants are to be every where 6. inches apart. a caution very strictly to be...
14From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 12 March 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Davy has been detained here until this day. he now carries with him some bundles of trees, and 4000. thorns. as to the trees, the moment he arrives, dig a trench in the garden 18. I. deep and set them in it in their bundles, side by side, & fill in the earth again very close, so that the air may not possibly get to them, and let them remain so till I come home, only watering them every day...
15From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 13 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Memorandums The first work to be done is to finish every thing at the mill, to wit, the dam, the stone still wanting in the South abutment, the digging for the addition to the toll mill, the waste, the dressing off the banks & hollows about the mill houses, making the banks of the canal secure every where. in all these things mr Walker will direct what is to be done & how. The 2d. job is...
16From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 31 May 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Will you be so good as to desire mr Stewart to fit up my cutting knife to be used at Monticello, and to make me another for my own use at this place. he has in his shop what remains of the old one to be repaired. by the next week’s post I shall send you money to pay the balance of your corn debt. I salute you with my best wishes. P.S. The Burr milstones for the toll mill are gone on. The...
17From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 8 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I inclose you four hundred and eighty dollars to be paid as follows. D to mr John Carr for J. Perry. 100
18From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 14 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
My packages which were shipwrecked having been sent on from Richmond to Monticello, I send you a list of them; and as they have doubtless been wet, and might still grow worse by continuing unopened, I must pray you to open them, to examine particularly the condition of the contents and report it to me in a letter by the first post, that I may know which of them must be replaced, and have time...
19From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 28 June 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Perry informs me he is ready to proceed with the stable, but cannot for want of the hauling. not knowing exactly the different works which may be pressing on your waggon, I can only observe that it is very important that the stable should be done before I come home, which will be about the 23d. of July, because otherwise I shall have no place to put my horses, nor those of the company...
20From Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Bacon, 6 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I promised Henry Williams to send him by this day’s post 87 D. 13 C for William Stewart. I therefore now inclose you 90. D. out of which you will be so good as to pay him immediately. I expect to be on in a fortnight with what may be necessary the demands still remaining on you. I offer you my best wishes. MHi : Coolidge Collection.