Thomas Jefferson account book

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unitid

{"value"=>"23168", "type"=>"local_mss"}

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{"value"=>"MssCol 23168", "type"=>"local_call"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1791-1803", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1791/1803"}

date_inclusive_start

1791

date_inclusive_end

1803

keydate

1791

date_start

1791

date_end

1803

unittitle

{"value"=>"Thomas Jefferson account book"}

physdesc

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repository

{"id"=>"MSS", "value"=>"Manuscripts and Archives Division"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Account book kept by Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, showing receipts and disbursements mainly at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Monticello, Virginia; and Washington, D.C., 1791-1803. Daily entries in daybook form concern family accounts, household costs, money paid to servants, slave labor, farming matters, taxes, loans, traveling expenses, and money donated to charity, as well as income from salary and crops. Tables show quarterly or annual analyses of expenditures by category, with income. Notable content includes travel itineraries with expenses for a trip with James Madison from Philadelphia to New York and New England, returning via Long Island, 1791 May 17-June 19, and from Philadelphia to Monticello, 1791 September 2-12. Accounts are paginated (odd numbers only, p. 1-173, [174]), with index. The volume also includes a table of weather data at Philadelphia and Monticello, 1791-1794; a list of wines provided at Washington, 1801-1808; and an inserted sheet noting how long some casks of madeira lasted from receipt to consumption."}

prefercite

{"value"=>"<p>Thomas Jefferson account book, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}

origination

{"value"=>"Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Received from the Tilden Trust, 1895</p>"}

processinfo

{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Susan P. Waide</span>, <span class=\"date\">2015</span></p>"}

relatedmaterial

{"value"=>"<span class=\"archref\">Account book, 1779-1782. Thomas Jefferson papers (Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division, Washington, D.C.).</span> <span class=\"archref\">Account book, 1783-1790 and Expenses, 1804-1826. Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.</span>"}

note

{"type"=>"sponsor", "value"=>"Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation."}

sponsor

{"value"=>"Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky\n Foundation."}

extent_statement

.2 linear feet (1 volume)

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