When he left Monticello for the Continental Congress in Annapolis, Thomas Jefferson left this schedule for his eleven-year-old daughter to follow:
From 8. to 10. o’clock practise music.
From 10. to 1. dance one day and draw another.
From 1. to 2. draw on the day you dance, and write a letter next day.
From 3. to 4. read French.
From 4. to 5. exercise yourself in music.
From 5. till bedtime, read English, write, &c.
I love this 18th-century postscript:
Keep my letters and read them at times, that you may always have present in your mind those things which will endear you to me.
She apparently did not follow the schedule. In his next letter, her father complains that she hasn’t written, hasn’t sent samples of her artwork, etc.