1From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, [17 January 1800] (Jefferson Papers)
I have just heard, my dear friend, of your arrival , and I hasten to welcome you to our shores, where you will at least be free from some of those sources of inquietude which have surrounded you in Europe. I feel much for what you must have suffered in a voyage of 95. days at this inclement season: but I shall hope to hear that these sufferings have passed away without any lasting effects. I...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 12 April 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
You have a mind, active, highly informed, and benevolent. I avail myself of all these qualities in addressing to you the following request. I mentioned to you when you were here, that we had in contemplation in Virginia to establish an university or college on a reformed plan: omitting those branches of science no longer useful or valued, tho hitherto kept up in all colleges, and introducing...
3From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 12 May 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I am happy in having seen here M. Bureau Pusy. the relation in which he stands to two persons whom I so much esteem as yourself and M. de la Fayette, as well as his own merit ensured him my best wishes. he is now on the wing as well as myself. I have therefore only time to inform you that about three weeks ago you were chosen a member of the American Philosophical society by an unanimous vote....
4From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 26 July 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I am much indebted to my enemies for proving, by their [little] tale of my death, that I have friends. the sensibility you are so good as to express on this occasion is very precious to me. I have never enjoyed better nor more uninterrupted health. I ought sooner to have acknoleged your favor of June 15. which came to hand in due time as did that of the 6th. instant. [I] thank you for your...
5From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 1 August 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I wrote you on the 26th. of the last month, and on the [31st received] your favor of the 17th. my office relating altogether to the legislative [depart]ment, I am entirely unacquainted with the measures proposed in that of the Executive. I may know that the fortification of certain ports [to some] extent has been authorised by the legislature. but whether the Executive will propose a greater...
6From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 11 August 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
In my letter by the last post I omitted to answer the question proposed in a former & repeated in your letter of July 26. whether your manuscript on education can be forwarded by post? it may; and will come safer through that than any other channel. accept in advance my grateful thanks for it; and my effort will not be wanting to avail my country of your ideas. success rests with the gods.—I...
7From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 12 December 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
I know, my dear friend, that you sent me, so long ago as August, the much desired, and much valued piece on education , which I read with great pleasure, and ought to have acknoleged it’s receipt. but when I am at home there are so many delicious occupations of the more active kind that it is as difficult to drag me to my writing table, as to get a horse, broken loose from confinement, to...