Thomas Jefferson Papers

From Thomas Jefferson to Marten Wanscher, 10 April 1804

To Marten Wanscher

Monticello Apr. 10. 1804.

Sir

The lime arrived here yesterday, and we are this day beginning to get laths. I shall therefore be glad that you would set out as soon as possible for this place, that I may see every thing in a good way for you before I leave the place. the Parlour & Hall are ready. the dome room will soon be ready, and, after that the three rooms & passage in the roof will be ready. according to your desire I send you an order for fifteen dollars on mr Barnes, out of which you can bear your expences. I shall be in hopes of seeing you here in less than a fortnight from this time. Accept my good wishes.

Th: Jefferson

P.S. no plaister of Paris came; but there is plenty here of that.

PrC (MHi). Enclosure: Order on John Barnes, Monticello, 10 Apr. 1804, requesting payment of $15 to Wanscher “for value received” (MS in DLC, in TJ’s hand and signed by him, signed by Charles Lacey acknowledging payment, endorsed by Barnes on verso as paid on 28 Apr.; PrC in MHi, on same sheet as cover letter).

In his financial memoranda, TJ noted the order as covering “expences on road” for Wanscher. On 8 May, TJ recorded the plasterer’s arrival at Monticello (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 , 2:1124, 1126).

Index Entries