Memorandum from Robert Bailey, [January 1795]
Memorandum from Robert Bailey
[January 1795]
Seeds Saved 1794
[on verso:]
wanting—
½ oz Coly flower
½ oz Green Brocli
½ oz white Ditto
✓ 1 oz1 Solid cellery
<½ oz Currold Indive>
2 Broad leaved Do. endive2
1 ℔ English Scarlet Radis
<4 oz Turnip Radish>
¼ peck of more, Broad windsor Beans
MS (MHi); written on a small sheet in Bailey’s hand; with two lines deleted and emendations in a darker ink, possibly by TJ; undated; endorsed by TJ: “Garden seeds. Bailey’s note. Jan. 95.”
Robert Bailey (d. 1804), described by TJ in 1803 as “an old Scotch gardener of the neighborhood,” lived at Monticello as TJ’s gardener from February 1794 until around the end of 1796. He subsequently became a gardener and nurseryman in Washington, D.C., where TJ used his services several times during his presidency (
, 11 Feb. 1794, and note, 26 Dec. 1796; TJ to Madame de Tessé, 30 Jan. 1803; , 279, 280, 287, 297).1. Check mark inserted; digit written over partially erased “½.”
2. Word inserted; digit in this line inserted in place of “½ oz.”