rec 7. Barnes for ༡ 2 143. 215.85 "Mess?? Dupont de Nemours pere et fils 1. Barne, 25.D " from Victor Dupont $7.4 his excha.on et co. Banquiers. rue de Montholon No. 300. à Paris for 2100 for the 400.2. sent him ante may and inclosed by triplicates to Fulwar Skipwrth in a letter within May & for vines. 10 gave in charity, 2.D 11. inclosed to James act of Baltimore s. for a los!! 12. recieved of J. Barnes 880. D. inclosed to G. Refferson 750.0 6. Lefferson in fad. of d. L. Eppres for 200. D for the pain ante a .22. inciosed to Gabriel Lilly 130. I to int is. D. to correct the arrowrond unhe May Ai and 85.D. for balance settled with him ante Mar: 30. 16 Lemaire's are" May 8-14 Provisions for sen 20 18. Save Candopher Severman in charity 30.0 bord. on I. Bar. 22. gave in charity 1.2. A 23 s maire', ase? May 15.-21 Provisions for sen"? 33. ?? gave go for Montiello Previd hours permet" 10.875 him order on 3. Bare for Daugherty's acc' заме .0.31 130.05 17.50 Sadlery. 50 Smith 3.75 contury. 1.7oi Pres', Hause pirn" 1.25 = 24.75 for chest. in charity 2.D so. Lemaire', ace?! May 22-28. Provisions now! дам masion 39.67 6667. 3.66 him order on 1. Barnes for ..༨ 31. gave Joseph Daugherty, ord on 8. Barnes for 10.D. to lay a mock's bird & case eggs 24.2 vegetal. 10.18 jave Sam. Carr ord. on I. Barnes for yous for 18. barrels herrings from Col• Lile gave Thethy ord. on 9. is for 5.a. 2. gave.com Stewart ord. on 1. Barnes for 10. D. on ace of his father. 2. gave inchen 5 22 Lemaire', aut may 29 homes Pronsions for son We learn also that while he was in Philadelphia during his term as Secretary of State Jefferson paid four hundred dollars a year rent to William Hamilton, and the following are sample entries: 66 Sept. 8th Took possession of drawg room & parlor. Begin to dine at home." On the 10th: Billy's wife (Mrs. Gardiner) begins to wash for me @ £20 a year." On the 11th he closed up his accounts with Mrs. House," with whom he had been living, by giving her "order on bank for 753D. in full. Gave her servant 2D." 12th Recd from bank a post note payable to Carter Braxton for 116%D. and remitted it to him under cover to Dr Currie to pay for the horse I bought of him. "Gave J. Madison ord. on bank for 95.26D. "Recd back from him 23.26D over paimt. our account standing thus "Travelling expen pd by him... 38.66 Price of horse I bought of him £25 Virgil.. 83.33 Paid by him Dec 26. Very few men were ever so exact, so punctual, or so careful about details. Besides these expense accounts, he kept a garden-book, a farm-book, a weather-book, and a receipt-book, all of which are wonders of neatness and minuteness, and the records, after the lapse of a century, are clear and legible, although as fine as diamond type. The price of his horses, the fees paid to ferrymen, the tips he gave to servants, the amount he dropped into the contribution box at church, were all carefully recorded, but we find no entries of political expenses. By an entry under April 5, 1791, we learn the name of Jefferson's landlord in New York, and that while Secretary of State he occupied a small house in Maiden Lane. Hamilton, his colleague in the Cabinet, lived in Pine Street, and Aaron Burr in Nassau Street, on the site now occupied by Belmont's banking-house, where Burr's sign as attorney-at-law was hanging as late as 1836. The entry reads: "April 5 delivd to H. Remsen to be sent to Rob & P. Bruce the post note of 66.5 Doll. in full for the years rent of their house in New York. Note it was put into an open letter from me to them." In the spring of the year that he was elected President (1800) he sat to Stuart for his portrait, for which his diary shows that he paid one hundred dollars. A portrait of the same class to-day would cost ten times as much. Jefferson's taste in art must have advanced considerably during the previous eight years, for we find under July 12, 1792, pd Williams for drawing my portrait 14D." 66 It would be a satisfaction to know what has become of Williams's fourteen-dollar sketch. There are no entries in Jefferson's expense-book for his first inauguration day, March 4, 1801, nor for the day previous; but we find that on the 2d he settled his board-bill at Conrad's with an order for two hundred and fifty dollars and sixty-seven cents on a Mr. Barnes. On the 5th he seems to have expended nothing, but on the 6th he gave a servant five cents and on the 9th subscribed for the Palladium, for which he paid J. Brown two dollars and fifty cents, and "received from J. Barnes ten eagles." He notes that He notes that "Edward Maher comes into my service @ 12 d per month & 2 suites." On the 13th he " gave $2.25 in charity" and on the 18th he "employed Joseph Rapin as steward at 100 guineas a year for himself and his wife as femme de charge." On the 20th he settled his account with the barber by the payment of one dollar; on the 28th he "gave in charity ten d.; ditto 20 d. ;" on the 31st "I d." more was given in charity, and he paid Munchin two dollars for a pair of boots. Those constitute the entire expenditures for his first month as President of the United States, although we find later that he purchased a considerable amount of supplies for which bills were rendered later. He went to Monticello about the first of April and remained there until the last of May, making preparations for permanent absence at Washington. During this time the White House was in charge of Joseph Rapin, the steward he had brought from Paris, and the affairs of the government were looked after by James Madison, the Secretary of State, and Edward Coles, the President's private secretary, whose salary was six hundred dollars a year. On his return to Washington we learn. from the account-book "on the 27th of May, 1801 John Cramer comes into my service @ 12 a month +2d for drink, 2 suites of cloathes & a pair of boots." Running through his expenditures for the year we find that Jefferson's duties as President did not distract his attention from his household affairs, and the most careful and exact housewife could not have been more conscientious in noting every penny paid for any purpose. When he gave a tip to his servants or dropped a penny in the hand of a beggar he recorded it as faithfully as the payments of interest upon his debts. On July 27, 1801, he bought a boot-jack for seventy-five cents, and we know every time he purchased an article of linen or a shaving-mug or a pair of hose. The |