Unnumbered Notebook 1

Containers:

Box 3 (legal), Folder 1

Scope and content:

Pages numbered 1-113, balance not numbered. "Sketch of a plan for the Endowment and Establishment of a national university". Letter to the president April 16, 1797. Page 7, "Loose thoughts on the improvement of the police, in Virginia". P 18 "Remarks on the District Court Laws". P 20 "Curious fact"; "McNeill's Cattle"; newspaper clipping with two articles marked: Schooner Only Son and the other on Herefordshire Cattle. P 21 "Memo" re: Sons of Duke of Orleans; reflections and notes occasioned by the perusal of the History of Ancient Greece. P 26 "Character of Beverley Randolph". P 27 Recipe for preservative for timber, plant etc. P 28 Note on So. Carolina District Sheriffs; memo of a cold night May 9. P 29 "N. Burwell's method of keeping a cash book". P 30 "Idea of an hydraulic machine for raising water out of wells". P 35 "Case of a lockjaw relieved" (a horse). P 36 Weather on June 17, 18, 19, 1797 in Richmond. P 37 "Cash Account June 23, 1797". P 38 "copy of a letter to Robert Pleasants, on the abolition of Slavery". June 29, 1797. P 42 "Sketch of a letter to the Reverend William Bentley - Salem". P 56 "Memo" re: British ships in Lynhaven bay firing on other vessels, Aug 18, 1797. P 57 "Cash Acct", August 27, 1797. P 58 "pratical rule to turn cents into pence Virginia currency. P 59 "Loose thoughts on the subject of a convention to amend the Constitution of the Commonwealth". P 60 "reflection". P 61 "Political Arithmetic Nov 30, 1797". P 65 "Cash Account Dec 1, 1797" and 1798. P 68 "Plan of a National Insurance". P 70 Method to keep poplar plank from cracking. P 71 "Plan for adjusting the representation in the general assembly upon an equal and liberal scalt". P 80 "Curious Incident". P 81 Memo re: mares to Bizarre; Nov 2 re: Iron coat of mail found while plowing; Nov 19 re: sharks teeth etc found while diggin a well. P 82 "Cash account" 1798.P 84 "Loose thoughts on a steam engine for raising water". P 107 "Directions for making a working model of the foregoing steam engine". Balance of pages not numbered: Copy of letter to Col William Davies, Dec 9, 1798 "The Dangerous Vice: A fragment-addressed to all whom it may concern. By a gentleman formerly of Boston" "Idea of a monument to the memory of the late General Washington. (Printed in the Enquirer, Vol 14, March 13, 1818 and March 27) Jan 15, 1800 letter to John Marshall re: monument to Washington. "Dirge for the 22nd of February 1800" "Description of a subterranean wall discovered near Salisbury, North Carolina, in the year 1795" "On the mausoleum-proposed to be erected to the memory of General Washington" "Idea of an amendment to the Constitution US" "Copy of a letter to Professor Ebeling, Hamburg, Dec 11, 1801" "Sketch of a bill for securing the independence of the members of Congress" "Copy of a letter to the Rector of the Convocation of Visitors and Governors of William and Mary College, Dec 9, 1803"

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