Memorandum of Tasks for James Dinsmore, 24 September 1804
Memorandum of Tasks for
James Dinsmore
work to be done by mr Dinsmore.
| ✓ | finish the Dome room. | |
| ✓ | double the door of the cellar under the tea-room. | |
| ✓ | do the gutturs of the house with sheet iron.1 | |
| h | hang the sashes of all the windows. | |
| ✓ | a. | finish <base & caps & architraves of> Hall & parlour2 |
| ✓ | put up the Venetian blinds from Washington | |
| ✓ | a. | remodel the 2. pr sash doors of the parlour.3 the outer new folding doors to be made of pine, the partition do. of mahogany |
| h | put up the outerfold of all the window shutters that they may be ready for the painter. | |
| ✓ | a. | put up the ballustrade of the gallery in the hall. |
| ✓ | b. | do the stairs & staircases. |
| ✓ | e. | base & Cape of the Dome external |
| d | Ballustrade on the roof of the house4 | |
| ✓ | c. | build the S.W. Portico. |
| ✓ | Parlour5 & Hall floors6 | |
| f. | entablature of N.W. piazza | |
| g. | N.W. Pavilion.7 externl & internl | |
| Chinese railing on terras of house | ||
| green house. |
Th:J. Sep. 24. 04.
MS (MHi); entirely in TJ’s hand; , No. 147n. MS (same); on verso of Memorandum of Tasks for John Hemings, [24 Sep.]; entirely in TJ’s hand, including signature by initials and date of 24 Sep. 1804; probably an earlier state of the list (see notes below); , No. 147l. MS (same); entirely in TJ’s hand, unsigned and undated; at head of text: “Dinsmore”; on same sheet and written alongside a version of the list of tasks for Hemings; with brief entries, perhaps constituting the earliest extant state of the memorandum; includes an entry for “gutters of the offices”; , No. 147m.
1. In Nichols No. 147l MS, this line appears below “finish the Dome room,” suggesting that TJ intended “do” (for “ditto”) to stand in for “finish.”
2. TJ added a check mark above this word. Nichols No. 147l MS: “finish base, cap, architraves & floors of the Hall & Parlour.”
3. Nichols No. 147l MS continues, following a comma, “so that either the sash or panelled door may be shut.”
4. Remainder of list not in Nichols No. 147l MS.
5. TJ added a check mark above this word.
6. Remainder of list not in Nichols No. 147m MS.
7. Word interlined in place of “Outchamber.”