| I ought by this statement to have cash in hand | $183.70 |
| But I actually have in hand | 293.00 |
| So that the errors of this statement amt to | 109.20 |
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 must know what should be the average 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 impudent surcharge for Venetn blinds, 2.66.
Borrowed of Mr. Maddison order on bank for 150d.
Enclosed to D. Rittenhouse, Lieper’s note of 238.57d, out of which he is to pay for equatorial instrument for me.
Hitzeimer says that a horse well fed with grain requires 100 lb. of hay, and without grain 130 lb.
T. N. Randolph has had 9 galls. whisky for his harvest.