Part 14 (1/2)
I ought by this statement to have cash in hand 18370 But I actually have in hand 29300 So that the errors of this statement amt to 10920
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 e 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 ie for Venetn blinds, 266
Borrowed of Mr Maddison order on bank for 150d
Enclosed to D Rittenhouse, Lieper's note of 23857d, out of which he is to pay for equatorial instrurain 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 Terun soon after I careed with Robt Chuning to serve me as overseer at Monticello for 25 and 600 lb pork He is to coive 300 _livres tournois_ for ree to take that suhter Maria married this day
March 16--The first shad at this reen leaf
April 9--Asparagus come to table
April 10--Apricots blossom
April 12--Genl Thaddeus Kosciusko puts into my hands a Warrant of the Treasury for 3,68454d to have bills of exchange bought for him
May 8--Tea out, the pound has lasted exactly 7 weeks, used 6 tile person A pound of tea126 cups costs 2d, 126 cups or ounces of coffee--8 lb cost 16
May 18--On trial it takes 11 dwt Troy of double refined ar to a dish of coffee, or 1 lb avoirdupois to 265 dishes, so that at 20 cents per lb it is 8 mills per dish An ounce of coffee at 20 cents per lb is 125 ar and coffee of a dish is worth 2 cents
As to the code of official etiquette which we have seen to exist in Washi+ngton, the President himself was responsible for it, for we have, written out in his own delicate hand, the following explicit instructions:
The faovernment, receive the first visit from those of the national islature and of the judiciary, independent of their offices, have a right as strangers to receive the first visit No title being adive no precedence Difference of grade aives no precedence
At public ceren ministers and their families A convenient seat or station will be provided for theers invited, and the fa place as they arrive, and without any precedence
To maintain the principle of equality, or of pell-rowth of precedence out of courtesy, the members of the executive will practise at their own houses, and recoentle precedence to the ladies infrom one apartment where they are asseh reae man's life records