26931Thomas Jefferson to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 19 February 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
your favor of Jan. 24. was duly recieved, and I now inclose you the supplements for the three hiatuses in your MS. all your references were found satisfactorily except that of March 9 th to the words ‘bush, which is a beautiful evergreen, & may be cut into any shape.’ I found no such words under that date in the folio MS. and therefore had the whole of that day copied. it is the only instance...
26932Thomas Jefferson to Peter S. Du Ponceau, 22 January 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have been 4. of the last 5. months absent from home, which must apologise for this very tardy acknolegement of your favor of Nov. 14. I learn with much satisfaction the enlargement by the Philosophical society of the scope of their institution, by the establishment of a standing committee for History, the moral sciences and general literature. I have always thought that we were too much...
26933From John Adams to Peter Stephen Duponceau, 23 June 1819 (Adams Papers)
Moriturus te Salutat! this pathetick Saluation I am sure will engage your humanity to pardon a question which I acknowledge to be impertinent and might be Offensive from any-other than a dying Man— Have you examined Bryants Annalysis of Ancient Mythology Court De Gebelin’s Monde Primitif—in nine ponderous Volum’s—and Dupuis’s Culte Universal—the two former of these appear to be Christian...
26934Admission to Practice Law in the United States Circuit Court for the New York District in the Eastern Circuit, [6 April … (Hamilton Papers)
That Alexander Hamilton, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Brockholst Livingston and Peter Stephen Du Ponceau be and they are hereby respectively admitted to practice as Counsellors of this Court. Whereupon they were respectively qualified as Counsellors and respectively subscribed the oath on the roll of Counsellors. D , RG 21, Minutes, Trial Notes, and Rolls of Attorneys of the United States Circuit...
26935From John Adams to Peter Stephen Duponceau, 24 July 1821 (Adams Papers)
I had I not been poison’d almost to the loss of my sight, by a rare fever or a blossom cold, I should have long since thanked you for, your discourse, and to have acknowledged to have read it with all that delight—which I always receive from the productions of your pen—The History of Pensylvania is an interesting subject not only to her Citizens but to all America and to all the World—The...
26936Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 30 April 1812 (Jefferson Papers)
After having expected for some time that you would be so kind as to inform me of the amount of the keg of powder you sent me, that I might remit it to you, I wrote to you on the 4 th of Nov. last , requesting that favor, & that you would add to it the amount of a similar envoy of powder to be forwarded to me, that both parcels might be paid for in one remittance. I had not then learnt the...
26937Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthere I. du Pont de Nemours, 9 September 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letter of the 11 th of Aug. after a long detention at Monticello , is recieved at this place, where I have now been upwards of a month. I had seen in the publick papers the unwelcome event it announced, & also the obituary notice to which your letter refers. it was but a modest sketch of the worth of M. Dupont : for of no man who has lived could more good have been said with more truth. I...
26938Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
We are, four of us, sportsmen, in my family, amusing ourselves much with our guns. but the powder sold here is wretched, carrying the index of the French eprouvette (such as you furnished Gen l Dearborne ) to 9. 10. or 11. only, while the cannister of your powder, recieved from you 2. or 3. years ago, carried it to considerably upwards of 20. I have persuaded a merchant in this neighborhood to...
26939From Thomas Jefferson to Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours, 23 November 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with real pleasure I inform you that it is concluded to be for the public interest to apply to your establishment for whatever can be had from that for the use either of the naval or military department. the present is for your private information; you will know it officially by applications from those departments whenever their wants may call for them. Accept my friendly salutations &...
26940Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthere I. du Pont de Nemours, 4 November 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, some time since, the keg of powder, you forwarded for me, and I have been daily expecting you would be so kind as to send on the note of the cost that I might remit it to you. the object of the present is to pray you to forward me another quarter of a hundred, comprehending half a doz: cannisters of shooting powder as before, & the rest proper for blowing rock, of which I have much...