Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Household Consumption, 21 February 1815

Notes on Household Consumption

1815. Feb. 21. a very large stalled beef killed Feb. 7. lasts till now, to wit, a fortnight.

MS (MHi); entirely in TJ’s hand; subjoined to his Notes on Household Consumption, 3 June 1809–23 Oct. 1811, printed above at the latter date.

stalled: confined or fattened in a stall (OED description begins James A. H. Murray, J. A. Simpson, E. S. C. Weiner, and others, eds., The Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed., 1989, 20 vols. description ends ).

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Title: Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Household Consumption, 21 February 1815
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 21 February 1815

Reference

Cite as: “Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Household Consumption, 21 February 1815,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-08-02-0223. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 8, 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, p. 280.]