For TJ’s order, which he placed through William Tunnicliff, a Washington-based merchant traveling to London, see TJ to Tunnicliff, 25 Apr. and 19 May. Tunnicliff apparently placed the president’s order on 23 July, the date that Jones’s firm issued a receipt for payment of £30–1–0 on behalf of TJ and an invoice virtually identical to the list printed below. On both the receipt and the invoice, five shillings were deducted, the cost for the small pamphlet, A Treatise on the Culture of the Apple & Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider & Perry, by Thomas Andrew Knight. Tunnicliff may have handed the invoice and receipt to TJ in early December after his return to Washington (MSS in MoSHi: Jefferson Papers, invoice endorsed by TJ: “Tunnicliff Wm.”; Sowerby, description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952–59, 5 vols. description ends No. 1211; Vol. 45:126–7).

At their December meeting, Tunnicliff presented TJ with Knight’s book, which he had purchased directly from the author, and likely also the bill of lading, which indicated expenses of £2–8–0 for packing and transport of the goods from London to Liverpool, £1–4–6 for export duties, £4–19–8 for insurance and freight to Philadelphia, and nine shillings for postage and drayage. Combined with the cost of the goods, Tunnicliff spent £39–2–2 in England, equal to $173.83, to which he added U.S. duties of $38.17 and transportation costs from Philadelphia to Alexandria of $5.50, for a total of $217.50. TJ paid Tunnicliff this amount on 12 Dec. (MS in MoSHi: Jefferson Papers, signed by Richard Dickinson, 31 Aug., on behalf of Higginson and Twiss of Liverpool, with calculations for duties, freight, drayage, and postage on verso; 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, 2 vols. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , 2:1170; TJ to Pickering, 6 Dec. 1805).