16. Correctly $.762.

17.  The Freeman’s Journal, and Philadelphia Daily Advertiser was a daily newspaper established in 1804 by William McCorkle. TJ paid four dollars for six months from Mch. 1806 (Brigham, History, ii, 908-9 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ; McCorkle receipt, 18 Jan. 1806, MHi).

18.  Petit censeur critique et littéraire, A. Daudet’s newspaper dedicated to the maintenance of “l’union et l’intelligence” between France and the United States, appeared briefly in New York in 1805. TJ’s payment was three dollars (Daudet to TJ, 1 Sep., 14 Nov., 25 Dec. 1805; John Vaughan to TJ, 26 Feb. 1806).

19. The paper TJ paid for was the Spirit of the Press, a weekly established in Philadelphia in 1805 by Richard Folwell and published erratically until 1813. TJ’s payment was two dollars (Brigham, History, ii, 951-2 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ; TJ to John Vaughan, 14 Jan. 1806; Folwell receipt, 20 Jan. 1806, MHi).

20. TJ meant the Philadelphia Repository, established in Nov. 1800 as a weekly newspaper by Ephraim Conrad, but in this period published as a magazine with the title Repository and Ladies’ Weekly Museum. TJ’s payment was two dollars (Brigham, History, ii, 950 description begins Clarence S. Brigham, A History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820, Worcester, Mass., 1920, 2 vols. description ends ; Irwin & Kelley receipt, 20 Jan. 1806, MHi). Not mentioned by TJ was Zachariah Poulson’s American Daily Advertiser, for which Vaughan paid eighteen dollars for TJ’s subscription for the years 1804 and 1805 (Poulson invoice, 1 Jan. 1806, MHi; TJ to Vaughan, 14 Jan., 15 Apr. 1806).

21. This was a quintal of dunfish for Monticello (TJ to Jacob Crowninshield, 11 Mch. 1805; Crowninshield to TJ, 13 Jan. 1806).

22. Correctly $19.25. This error is not reflected in the monthly total.

23. This is the Marsala wine paid for in Dec. 1805 (MB 5 Dec. 1805; TJ wine list, MB end 1803).

24. TJ’s slave Brown had taken one of John Jordan’s slaves as a wife. TJ, “always willing to indulge connections seriously formed by those people,” reluctantly agreed to sell him (TJ to Jordan, 21 Dec. 1805, 9 Feb. 1806; Jordan to TJ, 4 Dec. 1805).

25. Probably The Dramatic Works of William Dunlap, three volumes of which were published from 1806 to 1816. Although this work is not recorded as in TJ’s library, the artist and dramatist Dunlap (1766-1839) reported in his diary for this date that he had obtained a subscription from the President (Diary of William Dunlap, New York, 1930, ii, 388).

26. Washington Boyd was Washington city treasurer and tax collector of the levy court (Bryan, National Capital, i, 468-9 description begins Wilhelmus B. Bryan, A History of the National Capital, New York, 1914-16, 2 vols. description ends ). His receipt, dated 28 Feb. 1806, is in MHi.

27. The wagoner Jerry had come to Washington to carry fruit trees and thorn plants to Monticello (TJ to John H. Freeman, 7, 26 Feb. 1806; MB 17 June 1806).

28. TJ had appointed John Beckley Librarian of Congress in 1802. Charles Pougens had blended TJ’s personal account for books, including volumes of the Encyclopédie methodique, with that of the Library Committee (TJ to Beckley, 6 Mch. 1806).

29. These were duties on a pipe of Lisbon Arruda wine paid for in October (MB 9 Oct. 1806; TJ to David Gelston, 9 Feb., 8 Mch. 1806).

30. A bridge over the Eastern Branch (Anacostia River) at the end of Pennsylvania Avenue had been completed in 1804 (Bryan, National Capital, i, 426-7 description begins Wilhelmus B. Bryan, A History of the National Capital, New York, 1914-16, 2 vols. description ends ).

31. The Methodist church in Georgetown, on Twenty-eighth Street between M and Olive streets, was enlarged in 1806 (Bryan, National Capital, i, 603 description begins Wilhelmus B. Bryan, A History of the National Capital, New York, 1914-16, 2 vols. description ends ).

32. This can or tankard bought from silversmith John LeTellier weighed over thirteen ounces. It is presently owned by a descendant of TJ’s old friend, the Rev. Charles Clay, who at this time lived at Ivy Hill in Bedford County, near Poplar Forest (LeTellier invoice, 1 Apr. 1806, MHi).

33. These were charges on half of the white Hermitage wine paid for in June (MB 9 June 1806, note 42; David Gelston to TJ, 7 Apr. 1806; TJ wine list, MB end 1803).

34. TJ’s quarter cask of Marsala wine, bought from the New York mercantile firm of General Ebenezer Stevens, was sent to Monticello (TJ to Stevens, 8 Mch. 1806; Stevens to TJ, 3 Apr. 1806).

35. For the transactions of 21 and 22 Mch. 1806.

36.  James Hamner carried to Washington the May dispatches to James Madison and Robert Smith and brought TJ’s gig back to Monticello (TJ to Joseph Dougherty, 19 May 1806).

37. TJ’s 1805 appointment of General James Wilkinson (1757-1825) as governor of Louisiana Territory had provoked considerable opposition at the time and had recently been further challenged by the April passage of a House bill against the combination of military and civil office (Malone, Jefferson, v, 221-30 description begins Dumas Malone, Jefferson and His Time, Boston, 1948-1981, 6 vols. description ends ).

38. See MB 12 June 1806.

39. There were three inside privies in the remodelled Monticello house and a necessary at each angle of the L-shaped terraces.

40. Correctly $195.

41. TJ had subscribed to James Humphreys’ publication of Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies (Philadelphia, 1806; Sowerby, No. 4153 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

42. TJ was paying for two hundred bottles of white Hermitage wine of 1802 and six bottles of vin de paille. He described this Hermitage, from the vineyards of M. Jourdan, as “the very best I have ever recieved: it is exactly to our taste, neither too dry . . . nor too sweet.” The vin de paille was judged not to the American taste (TJ to Cathalan, 28 Apr. 1806; Cathalan to TJ, 4 Jan. 1806).

43. This was a pair of six-foot burr millstones for TJ’s Shadwell manufacturing mill, bought from Benjamin Brown of Alexandria (TJ to George Jefferson, 21 Apr. 1806).

44.  Alexander Hepburn had raised in his nursery 150 Italian fruit trees from stones received by TJ from Philip Mazzei in 1804. They had been carried to Monticello for planting in the south orchard in Feb. 1806 (Mazzei list of plant material sent TJ in 1804, undated, DLC; TJ to Mazzei, 18 July 1804; Hepburn receipted invoice, 12 June 1806, MHi; MB 26 Feb. 1806, note 27).

45. The Washington Canal, from the Potomac River at the mouth of Tiber Creek to the Anacostia River just below the Navy Yard, was not completed until 1815 (Bryan, National Capital, i, 493-501, ii, 104 description begins Wilhelmus B. Bryan, A History of the National Capital, New York, 1914-16, 2 vols. description ends ).

46. These cast-iron linings for the Monticello fireplaces were bought from Henry Foxall’s foundry (TJ to Foxall, 8 June 1806; Nichols, Nos. 147b, p. 16, 147w description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Architectural Drawings, ed. Frederick D. Nichols, 4th ed., Charlottesville, Va., 1978 description ends ).

47. Theophilus Holt operated a garden and nursery on the Anacostia River in Washington (Washington Federalist, 31 Jan. 1803).

48. Ten thousand more Washington thorn plants (Thomas Main to TJ, 24 Feb. 1806; Main’s receipted invoice, 27 June 1806, DLC).

49. There are several discrepancies in this chart, which seem to derive from the erroneous transcription of this figure. If $56.61 is used instead of $56.16, the horizontal total of $76.37 and the dinner cost figure of $18.11 then make sense. Only the vertical “provns.” total incorporates the incorrect $56.16 figure.

50. TJ paid import duties on William Roscoe’s four-volume work, The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth, sent him by the author, and on fifty bottles of Nebbiolo, a sparkling wine of the Italian Piedmont. TJ thought this shipment of a wine he had enjoyed in Turin in 1787 “superlatively fine” and reported that it was “extremely admired here” (TJ to Peter Muhlenberg, 8 June 1806; Sowerby, No. 171 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ; TJ to Thomas Appleton, 26 Oct. 1806; TJ to Peter Kuhn, 30 Mch. 1807).

51. About one hundred feet of fine and coarse screen wire had been procured for TJ in Baltimore by Jonathan Shoemaker, miller at the Columbia Mills on Rock Creek (Isaiah Balderston & Son to Shoemaker, 15 Apr. 1806, MHi). From Jan. 1807 Shoemaker, with his son Isaac, leased TJ’s Shadwell manufacturing mill for $1,250 per year. They gave up their lease in 1810, after several years of irregular rent payments and unsatisfactory operation. For letters concerning their unprofitable management of an enterprise TJ had hoped would alleviate his troubled financial condition, see Betts, Farm Book, p. 365-76 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts, Princeton, N.J., 1953 description ends .

52. This was a donation to the fledgling Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (TJ to Charles W. Peale, 19 June 1806).

53. This Moses was miller at TJ’s Shadwell toll mill for the year of his hire (Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, p. 53 description begins Jefferson at Monticello, ed. James A. Bear, Jr., Charlottesville, Va., 1967 description ends ; John H. Freeman to TJ, 20 June 1807).

54.  Edmund Bacon (1785-1866), the son of Harwood and Mary Bacon, succeeded John H. Freeman as overseer of Monticello in Sep. 1806. He was TJ’s able and devoted manager until 1822, when he moved to Kentucky (Eurie P. W. Neel, The Wilford-Williford Family [Nashville, 1959], p. 434). Bacon’s recollections of life at Monticello appear in Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, p. 27-117 description begins Jefferson at Monticello, ed. James A. Bear, Jr., Charlottesville, Va., 1967 description ends .

55. TJ added this sentence in pencil at a later date. See MB 15 Sep. 1806.

56.  Opie Norris (d. 1839), nephew, son-in-law, and partner of John Kelly, was a merchant who became a prominent Charlottesville citizen (Woods, Albemarle, p. 242-4; Rawlings, Early Charlottesville, p. 35-6 description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. Bridgewater, Va., n.d. description ends ).

57. TJ’s slave Joe Fosset (b. 1780) had run away from Monticello to Washington to see the slave Edy at the President’s House (TJ to Joseph Dougherty, 31 July 1806; Dougherty to TJ, 3 Aug. 1806). He was the son of Mary Hemings and, presumably, William Fosset the carpenter. Joe and Edy were later reunited at Monticello, where Joe worked as a blacksmith. He was one of the five slaves freed by TJ’s will.

58. Accompanied by his grandson TJR, TJ had come to Poplar Forest to lay off the foundations of the house (TJ to MJR, 16 June 1806).

59.  Gibson’s ordinary was in Buckingham County about seven miles north of present Buckingham (TJ memorandum of mileages to Poplar Forest, undated, ViU).

60.  Oliver Evans (1755-1819) had procured for TJ’s Shadwell manufacturing mill two scale beams, bolting cloth, and leather for elevator straps (TJ to Evans, 10 June 1806; Evans to TJ, 4 July 1806). For TJ’s use of Evans’ patented milling machinery, see MB 6 Dec. 1808.

61. This was not the usual nailrod, but was rolled and bar iron for completing the Shadwell mill and sheet iron for making a cotton gin (TJ to James Walker, 16 June 1806).

62. This entry is squeezed into space to right of 15 to 18 Sep. entries.

63. Scottish rhetorician James Ogilvie (c. 1775-1820) was at this time conducting an academy at Milton and TJR was one of his students. TJ, who had given Ogilvie free access to the Monticello library, was apparently very impressed with his oratorical powers (TJ to Ogilvie, 31 Jan. 1806; Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, p. 87 description begins Jefferson at Monticello, ed. James A. Bear, Jr., Charlottesville, Va., 1967 description ends ; Davis, Gilmer, p. 22-8 description begins Richard Beale Davis, Francis Walker Gilmer, Richmond, 1939 description ends ).

64. Not identified, but possibly a son of TJ’s slave Little George.

65. TJ’s slave Davy (b. 1784), son of Davy and Isabel, worked as a carter, nailer, blacksmith, and charcoal burner at Monticello. He was taking his wife Fanny (b. 1788), daughter of Ned and Jenny, to the President’s House, where she was to learn French cookery. After 1809 she was a cook at Monticello (Bear, Jefferson at Monticello, p. 55, 104 description begins Jefferson at Monticello, ed. James A. Bear, Jr., Charlottesville, Va., 1967 description ends ).

66. TJ was paying for the three pipes of Lisbon Arruda wine received since 1804 (TJ to William Jarvis, 16 Apr. 1806; MB 6 June 1805, 7 Mch. 1806).

67.  John P. Van Ness (1770-1846), president of the Washington branch of the Bank of the United States, had visited TJ at Monticello at the end of September and had borrowed fifty dollars from his host. TJ, as short of cash as Van Ness, had to call on a local merchant to advance the money (TJ to David Higginbotham, 1 Oct. 1806).

68. An explanation of this loss is in TMR to TJ, 4 Oct. 1806.

69. As American syrup of punch had become undrinkable because of the practice of making it with decaying fruit, TJ ordered an annual supply from Hugh Lenox, the U.S. consular agent at Kingston, Jamaica, who forwarded a hogshead of “Oranget,” listing the ingredients (TJ to Lenox, 13 June 1806; Lenox to TJ, 13 Sep. 1806).

70. A transcription error, not reflected in subsequent calculations, for $337.44.

71. TJ paid Henry Voigt for two silver watches, one English at $78 and the other Swiss at $66. The latter was the one bought for RJ (TJ to Voigt, 11, 18 July, 5 Nov. 1806; Voigt to John Barnes, 15 Oct. 1806).

72. These were duties on a further ninety-five bottles of Nebbiolo wine. Because the wine had been bottled too new, the shipment was an almost total loss (TJ to David Gelston, 9 Sep. 1806; TJ to Thomas Appleton, 26 Oct. 1806; TJ to Peter Kuhn, 30 Mch. 1807).

73. TJ had subscribed to Donald Fraser, The History of Man (New York, 1806; Sowerby, No. 1396 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ; TJ to David Gelston, 5 Nov. 1806).

74. Washington Boyd’s receipt for taxes on a chariot, two phaetons, and a gig, 6 Nov. 1806, is in MoSHi.

75. TJ bought sixty pounds white rope from Richard Parrott, who operated a rope walk on the north side of R Street near Thirtieth Street, Washington (Parrott receipt, 22 Nov. 1806, DLC; Bryan, National Capital, i, 527, 530 description begins Wilhelmus B. Bryan, A History of the National Capital, New York, 1914-16, 2 vols. description ends ).

76. TJ wished to have the silk rug in order to extend his experiments on the heat-conducting properties of clothing materials (TJ to George Taylor, 16 Aug. 1806; Taylor to TJ, 7 Oct. 1806). Some of his conclusions on this subject are in his MS notes for the Notes on Virginia, p. 279-80.

77.  Thomas Tingey (1750-1829), commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, provided TJ with sora rails and, probably, clapper rails.

78. Mayer & Brantz were booksellers and drygoods merchants at 28 Water Street, Baltimore (Baltimore American, 2 Jan. 1806). After J. P. Reibelt’s departure for Louisiana, Christian Mayer handled the importation of these books from Amsterdam. The thirteen titles, including André Michaux’s Histoire des Chênes de l’Amerique and the Baron de Prony’s Nouvelle Architecture Hydraulique and Mécanique Philosophique, cost $181.90 and are listed in the invoice of G. Dufour, 6 June 1806, MHi (Mayer & Brantz invoice, 14 Nov. 1806, MHi; Sowerby, Nos. 1084, 3744 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

79. TJ bought two pairs of spectacles, a pair of “goggles,” and a horn case of three magnifiers “for reading off the fine divisions of astronomical or geometrical instruments.” One pair of spectacles was evidently TJ’s first set of bifocals; the other was designed to be so “reduced in their size as to give facility to the looking over their top without moving them” (TJ to McAllister, 12, 19 Nov., 6 Dec. 1806; McAllister to TJ, 14 Nov., 1 Dec. 1806; the first letter to McAllister bears TJ’s drawings and specifications for the spectacles).

80. This week TJ deducted $42 from the “provns.” total for the servants’ dinner costs. This reflected the arrival of Fanny on 20 Nov., bringing the number of servants at the President’s House to twelve (TJ to MJR, 21 Nov. 1806).

81. About this time TJ began to assemble, through gift and purchase, several different breeds of sheep, which were pastured in the city of Washington, some even on President’s Square. A flock of forty sheep was driven back to Monticello at the end of 1808 (William Keough to TJ, 15 Feb. 1809; TJ to Edmund Bacon, 17 Oct. 1808; for TJ’s renewed interest in sheep breeding, see Betts, Farm Book, p. 114-42 description begins Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book, ed. Edwin M. Betts, Princeton, N.J., 1953 description ends ).

82. This James (b. 1772) was a farm laborer at Poplar Forest and later Lego.

83. TJ bought of the Georgetown merchant John Thompson three sets of cut glass caster bottles (Thompson receipted invoice, 21 Nov. 1806, MHi).

84. TJ paid William Lee for a shipment of Bordeaux wine received in the summer of 1805 and for two casks of dry Cahuzac, which arrived in a state suitable only for making into vinegar. The Bordeaux wines were thirty-six bottles of Château Margaux, seventy-two bottles of Rausan-Margaux, and seventy-two bottles of Château d’Yquem, all of the 1798 vintage (Lee to TJ, 12 Sep. 1804, 21 Aug. 1806; TJ to Lee, 28 Apr. 1806, 25 June 1807).

85.  Charles Willson Peale had adjusted the mechanism of TJ’s small polygraph and provided it with silver pen arms and pen tubes (TJ to Peale, 22 Nov. 1806; Peale to TJ, 13 Dec. 1806).

86. This Bible, with commentary by Thomas Scott, was published by William W. Woodward at Philadelphia, 1804-1809 (Sowerby, No. 1471 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).

87. TJ saw Signor Manfredi’s tightrope show (Washington National Intelligencer, 22 Dec. 1806).

88.  James Ewell (1773-1832) dedicated his Planter’s and Mariner’s Medical Companion (Philadelphia, 1807) to TJ (Sowerby, No. 893 description begins E. Millicent Sowerby, comp., Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1952-1959, 6 vols. description ends ).