Supplied by Jefferson to Monsieur de Meusnier, author of that part of the Encyclopédie Politique entitled “Economie Politique et Diplomatique.” See also the two papers immediately following this.
In preparing an article for the Encyclopédie Politique, M. Meusnier applied to Jefferson for information ( cf. ante p. 3). On the proofs of that article, Jefferson prepared the above notes. This article was separately printed, and for Jefferson’s comments upon it, see his letters of August 25 and 27, 1786, post.
A note is omitted here, because the press copy is so faded that it is impossible to make it out. It refers to page 18.
An allusion to Lewis Littlepage.
From the original in the possession of the Virginia Historical Society.
From a copy courteously furnished by Mr. Harold Brown, of Providence.
His sister, afterwards (1788) Mrs. Hastings Marks. From S. N. Randolph’s Domestic Life of T. Jefferson, 81.
to europe. Louis. | to west indies. Louis. | total. Louis. | |
---|---|---|---|
Fish | 107,000 | 50,000 | 157,000 |
Fish Oil | 181,688 | 9,562 | 191,250 |
Fish Bones | 8,400 | 8,400 | |
Salted Meats | 131,500 | 131,500 | |
Live Stock | 99,000 | 99,000 | |
Butter, Cheese | 18,000 | 18,000 | |
Flour, Bread, 660,000 barrels | 330,000 | 330,000 | 660,000 |
Wheat, 2,210,000 bushels | 331,000 | 331,000 | |
Indian Corn Pulse | 30,000 | 61,000 | 91,000 |
Rice, 130,000 barrels | 189,350 | 70,650 | 260,000 |
Indigo | 51,700 | 51,700 | |
Tobacco, 87,000 hogsheads | 1,306,000 | 1,306,000 | |
Potash, 20,000 barrels | 49,000 | 49,000 | |
Peltry | 184,900 | 184,900 | |
Flax Seed | 79,500 | 79,500 | |
Hemp | 21,000 | 21,000 | |
Iron, Copper | 84,000 | 6,000 | 90,000 |
Turpentine, c., 60,000 barrels | 29,410 | 1,840 | 31,250 |
Timber, Lumber | 82,000 | 164,000 | 246,000 |
Hops, 300 | 216,500 | 216,500 | |
Miscellanies | 22,000 | 22,000 | |
—————— | —————— | —————— | |
3,303,448 | 941,552 | 4,245,000 |
From Europe and Africa. | Woollen cloths of every description, | ||||||
Linens of every description, | |||||||
Hosiery, Hats, | |||||||
Gloves, Shoes, Boots, Sadlery other things of leather, | |||||||
Silks, Gold and Silver Lace, Jewellery, Millinery, Toys, | |||||||
East India goods, | |||||||
Porcelaine, Glass, Earthenware, | |||||||
Silver, Copper, Brass, Tin, Pewter, Lead, Steel, Iron in every form, | Louis. | l. | s. | ||||
Upholstery Cabinet Work, Painters’ Colours, | 3,039,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Cheese, Pickles, Confitures, Chocolate, | |||||||
Wine, 2,000 tons, at 100 louis, 200,000 louis Brandy, Beer, | |||||||
Medicinal Drugs Snuff, Bees’ Wax, | |||||||
Books, Stationery, Mill Stones, Grind Stones, Marble, | |||||||
Sail Cloth, Cordage, Ship Chandlery, Fishingtackle, Ivory, Ebony, Barwood, Dyewood, | |||||||
Slaves, Salt, 521,225 bushels, at 24 sous, 26,061 louis 6 livres, | |||||||
From the West Indies. | Louis. | l. | s. | 927,438 | 8 | 8 | |
Salt, 500,484 bushels, at 24 sous | 25,020 | 4 | 16 | ||||
Fruits | 2,239 | 12 | |||||
Cocoa, 576,589 lbs., at 12 sous | 25,798 | 12 | |||||
Coffee, 408,494 lbs., at 16 sous | 15,249 | 14 | 8 | ||||
Sugar, 10,232,432 lbs. | 168,007 | ||||||
Molasses, 3,645,464 gallons, at 24 sous | 186,281 | 19 | 4 | ||||
Rum, 3,888,370 gallons, at 2 livres 14 sous | 437,441 | 15 | |||||
Ginger, Pimento | 1,395 | 1 | 4 | ||||
Cotton, 356,591 lbs., at 24 sous | 17,829 | 13 | 4 | ||||
Skins | 7,870 | 6 | |||||
Indigo, 4,352 lbs., at 5 livres 8 sous | 979 | 6 | 16 | ||||
Ivory, Turtle Shell | 247 | 4 | 16 | ||||
Lignum vitæ, Sarsaparilla, Fustic, Annotta | 5,170 | ||||||
Logwood | 13,624 | 21 | |||||
Mahogany | 23,280 | ||||||
—————— | —— | —— | |||||
3,966,438 | 8 | 8 |
Virginia act for Religious Freedom.
Parts in italic are in cipher.
With Spain, concerning the navigation of the Mississippi.
See vol. i., p. 100.
Humphrey Marshall’s Arbustrum Americanum, Philadelphia, 1785.
Alexander Cluny’s American Traveller, London: 1769.
Virginia act for Religious Freedom.
François Soulés wrote a work entitled Histoire des troubles de l’Amérique et Anglaise (Paris 1787), the MSS. or proof-sheets of which he submitted to Jefferson, who made the above comments. In sending them to the author he wrote him:
—Before the receipt of your favor of the 11th inst. I had written the inclosed short notes on such parts of your work as I have been yet able to go over. You will perceive that the corrections are very trifling. Such as they are I will continue them, forward them to you from time to time as I get along. I will endeavour also to answer such of the queries you propose in your letter as my memory will enable me to do with certainty. Some of them I shall be unable to answer, having left in America all my notes, memorandums, c., which might have enabled me to give you the information you desire. I have the honour to be with the utmost esteem respect, sir, Your most obedient humble servt.
From a copy courteously furnished by Mr. Jules J. Vail of New York.
From Collections of the N. Y. Historical Society for 1878, p. 230.
See letter of Apr. 19, 1786, ante, page 88.
See ante, page 150.
In this letter, Jefferson employs a cipher of the same kind (numerals) as that already used in his previous letters to Madison, but changed entirely in its detail. A third change was later made, to which attention will be called in the proper place.
From S. N. Randolph’s Domestic Life of T. Jefferson, 115.
From S. N. Randolph’s Domestic Life of T. Jefferson, 118.
From S. N. Randolph’s Domestic Life of T. Jefferson, 120.
From S. N. Randolph’s Domestic Life of T. Jefferson, 122.
Memoires presentées à l’Assemblée des Notables, pa. 53.
Memoires presentées ex. pa. 51, 52.
From the original in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
From S. N. Randolph’s Domestic Life of T. Jefferson, 130.
His nephew.
Jefferson meant Apennines.
Parts in italic are in cipher in original.
Parts in italic are in cipher in original.
A comparison of the present text of this letter, with the often quoted version printed in the Washington edition, illustrates the extreme liberties frequently taken by Jefferson’s former editor.
In his few weeks’ visit in England Jefferson had also been painted by this artist, being his earliest portrait. The original I have not been able to trace, but a replica was made for Adams, and is now at Quincy. It has been engraved for Appleton’s American Biography.
The italic part was in cipher.
Parts in italic are cipher in the original.
Italics are cipher in original.
Parts in italic are cipher translations.
From S. N. Randolph’s Domestic Life of Jefferson, page 139.
From S. N. Randolph’s Domestic Life of Jefferson, p. 142.
From a copy courteously furnished by Dr. J. S. H. Fogg, of Boston.
“ Books on the subject of Juries:
Complete juryman, or a compendium of the laws relating to jurors. 12mo. 3/.
Guide to English juries. 12 mo. 1./. 1682.
Hawles’s Englishman’s right. 3 vols. 12mo. 1/.
Jurors judges both of law fact by Jones. 3/.
Security of Englishmen’s lives, or the duty of grand juries. 12mo. 1/.
Walwin’s juries justified. 4to. 1/.”
Parts in italic are cipher translations.
John Adams.
Parts in italic are cipher translations.