Memorandum of Expenses in Philadelphia, [June 1798]
Memorandum of Expenses in Philadelphia
[June 1798]
| Expences. Philada. | ||
| Dawson gives for 2. furnished rooms on the second floor in 8th. street 7. Doll. a week, without board.1 Innes & his son give 14. D. a week for board & 2. excellent rooms furnishd. at mrs Lawson’s 4th. street. 2 very good rooms therefore genteely furnished, without board may be said | 10. | |
| Bossèe (5th. street) will furnish a soupe, 2 dishes of meat [entrées] (of which one may be Bouillie if desired) & 2 dishes of vegetables [ ] for one person 2. D. a day, per week | 14. | |
| 2 ℔ butter .50 7 ℔ bread .50 coffee .18 sugar .18 | 1.36 | |
| 2. servants. board | 5. | |
| wages for 1. of them, being extra. | 2.50 | 7.50 |
| 32.86 | ||
| I pay Francis for rooms, & board for self & servt. | 30. | |
MS (DLC); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; brackets in original; endorsed by TJ: “Expences. Phila. estimate June. 1798.”
Bouillie: stewed beef.
1. TJ here canceled “this is reckoning the room.”