48.  Isaac A. Coles brought TJ’s attention to this wine, which was imported by New York merchant Philetus Havens from Peter Walsh in Sète, France. The St. George wine, a red vin ordinaire from Provence, was “much approved” by TJ’s guests and he made later attempts to obtain it (Havens to Isaac A. Coles, 18 July 1808; TJ to Walsh, 27 Mch. 1811; TJ wine list, MB end 1803).

49. Correctly 87¢.

50. TJ paid $281.00 for an Aug. 1807 shipment of nailrod and $172.75 for sheet iron for roofing the Monticello offices (TJ to Jones & Howell, 6 Jan. 1808; TJ to James Dinsmore, 8 Dec. 1807).

51. TJ had ordered from Samuel F. Bradford, Philadelphia bookseller at 4 South Third Street, John Sharpe’s miniature (32mo) edition of the works of William Shakespeare in nine volumes, “the size being the circumstance which recommends it” (TJ to Bradford, 13 Dec. 1807; Bradford to TJ, 18 Dec. 1807).

52. This was a gold watch bought by TJ as a gift for a granddaughter, probably Anne Cary Randolph, who was about to turn seventeen (TJ to Henry Voigt, 3 Dec. 1807; Voigt to TJ, 19 Dec. 1807; Chaudron & Co. invoice, 18 Dec. 1807, MHi).

53.  Joseph Milligan had taken over the Georgetown bindery and bookstore of Mrs. John March (Washington National Intelligencer, 22 Apr. 1808). Milligan’s itemized invoice for binding and book purchases from 7 Nov. 1807 to 8 Mch. 1809, as well as subsequent invoices, is in DLC.

54. This was actually for one thousand pounds of pig lead for the sash weights of the Monticello windows (TJ to Jones & Howell, 1 Nov. 1807; TJ to James Dinsmore, 1 Nov. 1807; Jones & Howell to TJ, 7 Nov. 1807).

55. TJ had asked James Oldham in Richmond to purchase mahogany for four Pembroke table tops to be made at Monticello (TJ to Oldham, 12 Oct. 1807; Oldham to TJ, 24 Dec. 1807).

56. At his own expense TJ had had explorer William Clark (1770-1838) dig up and send to him a large number of fossil bones from Big Bone Lick in Kentucky. Keeping a few items for himself, TJ divided the rest of the collection between the American Philosophical Society and the National Institute of France. For an excellent account of the disposition of the fossils, see Howard C. Rice, Jr., “Jefferson’s Gift of Fossils to the Museum of Natural History in Paris,” Procs. Amer. Phil. Soc., xcv (1951), 597-627.

57. The Useful Cabinet was a shortlived monthly publication of the Newengland Association of Inventors and Patrons of Useful Arts, of which Benjamin Dearborn was president. It contained short articles on physics and mathematical questions, patents, and tools (Sowerby, No. 1105 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ; Benjamin M. Lewis, “A History and Bibliography of American Magazines, 1800-1810,” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1956, p. 285).

58. The Republican Crisis was a semiweekly newspaper published in Albany, N.Y. (Brigham, History, i, 543-4; Isaac Mitchell receipted invoice, 22 Dec. 1807, MHi).

59. Although he continually planted the seeds of the cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) at Monticello, TJ was apparently never successful in growing this tree, which he numbered among the “exotics of distinguished usefulness” (TJ to John P. Emmet, 27 Apr. 1826).

60. In February William Keough had been “attacked and severely wounded” by one of TJ’s rams in President’s Square. In the same month a second incident, presumably involving the same aggressive beast, resulted in the death of a young son of Alexander Kerr (Keough to TJ, 15 Feb. 1809; TJ to Kerr, 7 Feb. 1808; Kerr to TJ, 7 Feb. 1808; Anna Maria Thornton diary, 24 Feb. 1808, DLC).

61. A transcription error for 33.

62. Correctly $.815 (see MB 27 Oct. 1807, note 33).

63. Silk and morocco suspenders (Elisha Riggs receipted invoice, 26 Feb. 1808, MHi).

64. TJ paid for another shipment of sheet iron for roofing the offices at Monticello (Jones & Howell to TJ, 1 Dec. 1807; TJ to James Dinsmore, 8 Dec. 1807).

65.  JWE had arranged the purchase from Joseph Eggleston (1754-1811) of Amelia County of a five foot, six-year-old bay carriage horse, a Diomede, which took the place of the aging Castor (JWE to TJ, 24 Sep. 1807; Eggleston to TJ, 4 Dec. 1807; TJ to JWE, 4 June 1808).

66. These instruments, ordered from William Jones in London in 1806, consisted of a pair of hair compasses, a twelve-inch concave mirror, a set of ivory parallel scales, a three-inch pocket box sextant with a platina limb, and a ten-inch reflecting circle, complete with brass stand, telescope, reflecting eyepiece, vernier scale, and a mercury artificial horizon. TJ had requested an astronomical quadrant, but Jones substituted the reflecting circle, which he described as “a general or complete small portable Observatory.” This instrument, which TJ used for the astronomical observations of his years of retirement, is described in his list of “Mathematical Apparatus” (MS Library Catalogue, MHi) as “a Hadley’s circle of Borda by Jones 10 I. £26–16–6” (TJ to Jones, 25 Oct. 1806; Jones to TJ, 17 Oct. 1807).

67. Although the correct total is $420, TJ sent George Jefferson $425 (TJ to Jefferson, 7 Mch. 1808).

68. TJ paid for six of Peregrine Williamson’s “three Slit metalic pens” and four sets of the pen combined with a pencil in a case with a calendar, to use as gifts for friends. TJ immediately adopted these steel pen points, which cost six dollars the dozen, for all his writing, including the polygraph, but found that they wore out quickly (Williamson to TJ, 23, 30 Jan., 7 Mch. 1808; TJ to Williamson, 24 Feb., 22 Mch., 21 June 1808; A List of Patents Granted by the United States [Washington, 1872], p. 77).

69. The French groceries, itemized in TJ to Stephen Cathalan, 29 June 1807, cost $44.48. The rest of the payment was for one hundred bottles of red “Vin de Nice,” presumably Bellet, which TJ remembered from his 1787 visit to Nice and later called “the most elegant every day wine in the world” (Cathalan to TJ, 14 Oct., 24 Dec. 1807; TJ to James Monroe, 8 Apr. 1817).

70. A transcription error for $26.08.

71.  John Shee, collector of the port of Philadelphia, had paid freight and duties on a dozen bottles of wine from Philip Mazzei, the French groceries and wine paid for in March, and three kegs of Nebbiolo wine paid for in Jan. 1809 (MB 24 Mch. 1808, 9 Jan. 1809; Shee to TJ, 10 Nov., 17, 23 Dec. 1807, 9 Feb. 1808; TJ to Shee, 22 Oct., 20 Dec. 1807; Fred Wollaston to TJ, 9 Dec. 1807; Peter Kuhn to TJ, 8 June 1807).

72. Correctly $64.87.

73. Correctly $90.45.

74. This payment was actually for freight charges from New Orleans on the fossil bones from Big Bone Lick (MB 9 Feb. 1808; James H. McCulloch to TJ, 7 May 1808; Henry Thompson receipted invoice, 15 Feb. 1808, DLC).

75.  P. A. Guestier, general merchant in Baltimore, had imported the seeds, which consisted of a pound of rape seed, fifty pounds of sulla seed (Hedysarum coronarium), and an unknown amount of quarantine corn, an Italian maize which TJ prized for its early ripening (Guestier to TJ, 14 Mch. 1808; TJ to Guestier, 20 Mch. 1808).

76. On the first debt see MB 6 Sep. 1773, cash accounts. The second debt was an unsettled account between TJ and the Donalds’ store in southern Albemarle County which had been run by Peter Davie (TJ to John Murchie, 30 Oct. 1806, 22 May 1807, 5 May 1808).

77.  George W. Riggs mended TJ’s gold seal (Riggs receipted invoice, 6 Apr. 1808, MHi).

78. TMR.

79. TJ’s friend, the prominent Baltimore merchant John Hollins, had supplied two dozen bottles of Montepulciano wine and coffee from the island of Bourbon, now Réunion, in the Indian Ocean (TJ to Hollins, 14, 19 June 1808; Hollins to TJ, 16, 21 June 1808).

80.  Dolley Madison had exchanged a pearl clasp for a gold chain for TJ’s granddaughter Anne Cary Randolph (MJR to TJ, 23 June 1808).

81. These draperies for the four windows of the Monticello parlour were made of crimson mantua silk, with green linings and yellow fringe. John Rea was a Philadelphia upholsterer on South Fourth Street (TJ to Rea, 2 Mch. 1808; Rea to TJ, 25 Apr. 1808, both with drawings of the curtains; Rea invoice, 25 Apr. 1808, DLC).

82. During this summer residence in Washington TJ deducted $35 (ten servants) for the costs of the servants’ dinners from all “provns.” totals over $70 and halved the rest.

83. TJ failed to transcribe $1.25 into the servants’ column for this week.

84. Correctly $.82 (see MB 27 Oct. 1807, note 33).

85.  John E. Rigden had taken MJR’s gold watch to England for conversion from double to single case and repair. Rigden’s invoice, at 29 Feb. 1808 in MHi, also includes a charge of five dollars for repairing another watch (Rigden to TJ, 7 Mch. 1808; TJ to Rigden, 12 Mch. 1808).

86.  John Vaughan furnished for Monticello 250 pounds of white lead, sending also small amounts of ochre and Prussian blue pigments which he suggested using as additives (Vaughan to TJ, 27 June, 1 July 1808; TJ to Vaughan, 10 July 1808).

87. Dr. Charles Worthington (1759-1836) was a prominent Georgetown physician and in 1819 founder and first president of the medical society of the District of Columbia (Eberlein and Hubbard, Historic Houses of George-town, p. 35-8 description begins Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard, Historic Houses of George-town and Washington City, Richmond, 1958 description ends ; Worthington receipted invoice, 2 Feb. 1808, DLC).

88. Dr. Elzey provided attendance, medicines, and dressings in Feb. 1808 (Elzey receipted invoice, 2 Feb. 1808, MHi).

89.  John Ott sold TJ horse medicine, saltpetre, and three gallons of copal varnish for Monticello (Ott receipted invoice, 2 Dec. 1807, MHi).

90. TJ’s Culpeper County friend John Strode had several mills, one of which was located on the Rappahannock River about three miles southeast of present Remington. TJ may have deviated from his usual Norman’s ford crossing in order to view the construction of Strode’s milldam. TJ’s own dam for the Shadwell mills had been washed away for a second time during the past winter (Scheel, Map of Culpeper County description begins Historical map, Culpeper County, surveyed and drawn by Eugene M. Scheel, Washington, D.C., 1975 description ends ; TJ to Strode, 3 Apr. 1808; Strode to TJ, 18 Apr. 1808).

91.  Reuben Maury (d. 1869), son of Rev. Matthew Maury, lived at Piedmont, just west of Charlottesville (Rawlings, Antebellum Albemarle, p. 58).

92. TJ paid for a bound file of the weekly Universal Gazette, a two-year subscription to the National Intelligencer, and invitation cards (Samuel H. Smith invoice, 16 Nov. 1807, MHi).

93.  Samuel McCraw had been hired to recover rents and possession of the Richmond house and lot owned by Philip Mazzei from a tenacious tenant (TJ to George Jefferson, 5 Sep. 1807; MB 2 Aug. 1817).

94. Millwright John G. Belt, who in 1810 built one of TJ’s threshing machines, had been engaged in work connected with TJ’s Shadwell mills (Edmund Bacon to TJ, 8 Nov., 11 Dec. 1807, 15 Jan. 1808).

95. TJR was on his way to Philadelphia, where he lived in the house of Charles Willson Peale and attended scientific lectures at the University of Pennsylvania. He returned to Virginia in the summer of 1809 (TJ memorandum to TJR, 13 Oct. 1808; Vance, “TJR,” p. 15-28).

96. TJ had suffered an attack of rheumatism from 23 to 27 Oct. (TJ to Ellen W. Randolph, 25 Oct. 1808; TJ to MJR, 1 Nov. 1808).

97. This alabaster vase lamp, bought for TJ by TJR in Philadelphia, now hangs at Monticello (TJ memorandum to TJR, 13 Oct. 1808; TJR to TJ, 5 Nov. 1808; Nichols, No. 147ll description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Drawings, ed. Frederick D. Nichols, 4th ed., Charlottesville, Va., 1978 description ends ).

98. During his last term of residence in Washington TJ generally deducted $38.50 (eleven servants) for the costs of the servants’ dinners from the “provns.” totals over $77 and halved the rest. An exception is the week of 31 Dec. for which he deducted $42 (twelve servants).

99. Correctly $.929 (see MB 27 Oct. 1807, note 33).

1. Correctly $18.50.

2.  John R. Chisholm, Hugh Chisholm’s brother, was also a brickmaker and mason and worked for TJ at both Poplar Forest and Monticello (TJ account with Hugh Chisholm, 17 Nov. 1810, MHi).

3.  John Tayloe (1771-1828) was the socially prominent racehorse owner and resident of the Octagon House at present 1741 New York Avenue, N.W. Tayloe’s country estate was Mount Airy in Richmond County, Va. (Eberlein and Hubbard, Historic Houses of George-town, p. 301-16 description begins Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard, Historic Houses of George-town and Washington City, Richmond, 1958 description ends ).

4.  The Tickler was a Philadelphia weekly paper edited by George Helmbold (Brigham, History, ii, 954 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ).

5. TJ here used “drawing” in the sense of promoting suppuration. The tooth was not pulled until 30 Nov. when TJ received Dr. Thomas Patterson’s letter of the same date advising immediate extraction. This toothache and its complications confined TJ to the house for a good part of the winter (TJ to MJR, 6 Dec. 1808, 10 Jan. 1809; TJ to Ellen W. Randolph, 20 Dec. 1808).

6. Correctly $.85 (see MB 27 Oct. 1807, note 33).

7. TJ’s Shadwell manufacturing mill contained a grain elevator, a meal elevator, a set of conveyors, and a hopper boy, all part of Oliver Evans’ improved machinery for flour mills. As they were installed in an interval when Evans’ patents were not in effect, TJ considered himself under no legal obligation to pay, but forwarded the permit fees as “a voluntary tribute to a person whose talents are constantly employed in endeavors to be useful to mankind” (TJ to John Moody, 26 Oct. 1808; Moody to TJ, 20 Oct. 1808, and Moody’s certificate, 3 Nov. 1808, MHi; TJ to Evans, 6 Dec. 1808; Evans letter and permit to TJ, 9 Dec. 1808).

8. This carriage horse bought from Richard Thweatt was a Diomede (Betts, Farm Book, p. 103-4 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts, Princeton, N.J., 1953 description ends ).