Notes on Shipment, 23 July 1804
Notes on Shipment
[before 23 July 1804]
Gigg. Jones & Kean.
Andrews. Composition
<Duane. sealing wax>
Venitian blinds
| No. 4 | cheese. Lemaire | |
| <Maccaroni.> | ||
| sausages | ||
| tongues. | ||
| small money. | ||
| 5 |  |
prunes |
| paccans | ||
| [. . .] | ||
| maccaroni | ||
| Liberty glass. | ||
| box. | |
planes. |
| 6 | mounting for polygraph. | |
| box of Orleans sugar. | ||
| box of print frames. | ||
| sealing wax. | ||
| books. | ||
| crucibles | ||
| locks. Lenox | ||
| <small picture frames> |
MS (DLC: Madison Papers, Miscellaneous Manuscripts); entirely in TJ’s hand, one word illegible; undated, but see below; follows Paragraph on Disaffected Citizens, [1804?], on verso of same sheet as Notes on Washington Highways, [ca. 2 July 1804], interleaved in a bound volume of Madison’s notes (see , 14:168n); with unrelated numerical calculations by TJ along right margin.
The items on TJ’s Agenda indicate that this list related to a shipment or shipments to Monticello in the summer of 1804. In June, he wrote James Dinsmore that he would be sending venetian blinds to his home. TJ forwarded to Monticello cod tongues received from Jacob Crowninshield and had recently received from his European contacts such foodstuffs as prunes and macaroni. Pecans and a box of sugar arrived from New Orleans, and he had recently ordered carpentry planes and a second polygraph, intended for Monticello. It seems likely that he would have the items shipped sometime prior to his own departure for Monticello on 23 July (Hore Browse Trist to TJ, 6 Mch.; J. P. G. Muhlenberg to TJ, 23 Mch.; Thomas Storm to TJ, 28 Mch.; Peter Lenox to TJ, 26 May; TJ to James Dinsmore, 13 June; TJ to Charles Willson Peale, 14 June; Invoice from Henry Ingle, 10 July; TJ to Jacob Crowninshield, 21 July).