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 (MB description begins James A. Bear, Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, Princeton, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 11 Feb. 1794, and note, 26 Dec. 1796; TJ to Madame de Tessé, 30 Jan. 1803; Betts, Garden Book description begins Edwin M. Betts, ed., Thomas Jefferson’s Garden Book, 1766–1824, Philadelphia, 1944 description ends , 279, 280, 287, 297).