MS (MHi); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; the list of trees and plants is written on verso of the page containing list of baggage and evidently is a list of the contents of boxes numbered 5 through 9.

This represents TJ’s final list of his baggage, some of which had been packed since April, and it must therefore have been drawn up shortly before the baggage itself was dispatched by diligence d’eau on Sunday, 6 Sep. 1789 (see TJ to Nathaniel Cutting, 10, 15, and 17 Sep. 1789; also diary of Cutting, under 28 Sep. 1789). The baggage did not arrive at Le Havre until 25 Sep. 1789. On 22 Sep. 1789 TJ entered in his Account Book the costs of various items involved in the packing and shipping, as set forth that day in his settlement with Petit. At this settlement Petit presented a “Memoire de ce que je peie pour le pie destale de monsieur le marquis de lafayette TI No 18”; this included a charge of 9₶ “pour le transport a bato,” another of 1₶ 4s. “pour le plom,” and another of 6₶ “pour lofficie de la doine qui est venu la faire plombé sans ouvertur,” making a total of 16₶ 4s (in Petit’s hand; endorsed by TJ on 22 Sep. 1789, and attested by Joseph Latil on 9 Dec. 1789; Vi). The baggage had been sent to Rouen and on 5 Oct. 1789 at Le Havre TJ settled with Le Mesurier & La Motte for the “Charges on Thirty Eight Packages received from Rouen and shipt in Havre on Sundry Vessels by Order and for Account of His Excellency Thos Jefferson Esqr,” totalling 524₶ 9s (invoice receipted, MHi; endorsed). TJ had long been interested in the cork oaks and inquired about them on his journey to southern France. The following memorandum, undated and unsigned, may have been addressed to TJ at any time in the years 1787–1789: “The professors Savii and Santi have brought from Monte Amiata in Tuscany an oak so nearly allied to the Cork tree that the Mountaineers called it by that name and employed it to the same usages. They have published it under the name of Quercus Pseudo suber. They may either give seeds of it, or procure seed from Monte Amiata which is in the province of Siena.—I have seen the real Cork in the sandy forest between Livorno and Pisa, not far from S. Pietro in Vado. Their acorns must be more proper for Virginia, that being one of the highest Latitudes in which Cork trees grow in Europe.—The above professors are of the University of Pisa” (MHi).