Loans 274.00
Debts 529.61
Asquisitions--lands bought 2,156.86
" --buildings 3,567.92
" --carriages 363.75
" --furniture 664.10
Total $24,682.45
Mr. Jefferson says in rather shamefaced fashion to his diary:
I ought by this statement to have cash in
hand $183.70
But I actually have in hand 293.00
So that the errors of this statement amt
to 109.20
The whole of the nails used for Monticello and smithwork are
omitted, because no account was kept of them. This makes
part of the error, and the article of nails has been
extraordinary this year.
There was a curious accuracy in the analytical tests which Mr.
Jefferson applied to all the ordinary transactions of life. It was not
enough for him to know exactly how many dollars and cents he had
expended; he must know what should be the average result of such
expenditures. In the middle of a life of tremendous and marvelously
varied activities he finds time to leave for us such records as these:
Mr. Remsen tells me that six cord of hickory last a
fireplace well the winter.
Myrtle candles of last year out.
Pd Farren an impudent surcharge for Venetn blinds, 2.66.
Borrowed of Mr. Maddison order on bank for 150d.
Enclosed to D. Rittenhouse, Lieper's note of 238.57d, out of
which he is to pay for equatorial instrument for me.
Hitzeimer says that a horse well fed with grain requires 100
lb. of hay, and without grain 130 lb.
T. N. Randolph has had 9 galls. whisky for his harvest.
My first pipe of Termo is out--begun soon after I came home
to live from Philadelphia.
Agreed with Robt. Chuning to serve me as overseer at
Monticello for L25 and 600 lb. pork. He is to come Dec. 1.
Agreed with ---- Bohlen to give 300 _livres tournois_ for my
bust made by Ceracchi, if he shall agree to take that sum.
My daughter Maria married this day.
March 16--The first shad at this market today.
March 28--The weeping willow shows the green leaf.
April 9--Asparagus come to table.
April 10--Apricots blossom.
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