James Dinsmore’s Memorandum to Thomas Jefferson on Hugh Chisholm’s Prices for Plastering, [ca. March 1819]
James Dinsmore’s Memorandum on Hugh Chisholm’s Prices for Plastering
[ca. Mar. 1819]
memdm of Hugh Chisholm’s Prices for Plaistering and finding all materials
| latheing & Plaistering one Coat | $ .34 |
| two Do and white woshing1 | .50 |
| three2 Do with plaister of paris | .67 |
| on Brick walls— | |
| one Coat | 17 |
| two Do and white woshing | 34 |
| three Do with Plaister of Paris | 50 |
MS (ViU: TJP); written in Dinsmore’s hand on a small scrap; undated; addressed: “mr Jefferson”; endorsed by TJ: “Plaisterer Chisholm Hugh plaistering”; with probably unrelated calculation in an unidentified hand on verso.
1. Preceding two words reworked from “Do.”
2. Manuscript: “thre.”
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- building materials; plaster search
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- Dinsmore, James; and plastering at University of Virginia search
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- plastering; at University of Virginia search
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