1Notes on Cotton, [ca. 24 March 1792] (Jefferson Papers)
Cotton. Dunlap’s paper. 1792. Mar. 24. Nashville. ‘I have made 600. ℔. of cotton on half an acre of land, but on a moderate calculation an acre will produce 1000. ℔.’ MS ( DLC ); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated. TJ copied from an extract in Dunlap’s American Daily Advertiser , taken in turn from a 1 Oct. 1791 letter to the editor appearing in the 3 Mch. 1792 issue of Bowen’s Virginia Centinel &...