To Thomas Jefferson from Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 20 February 1801
From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours
New York 20 Fevrier 1801.
Monsieur,
Vous n’avez jamais eu qu’ un Vice. Je fais mon compliment à votre Patrie et aux deux Mondes de ce qu’enfin vous l’avez perdu.
Salut et respect.
Du Pont (De Nemours)
editors’ translation
New York, 20 February 1801
Sir,
You have never had but one vice. I compliment your fatherland and both worlds on the fact that you have finally lost it.
Greetings and respect.
Du Pont (De Nemours)
RC (MHi); at head of text in English: “To greatest Man in greatest Place of the United States”; endorsed by TJ as received 25 Feb. and so recorded in SJL.