27181From 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...
27182From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 14 July 1807 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved last night your letter of May 6. and a vessel being just now sailing from Baltimore affords me an opportunity of hastily acknoleging it. your exhortation to make a provision of arms is undoubtedly wise, and we have not been inattentive to it. our internal resources for cannon, are great, and those for small arms considerable, & in full emploiment. we shall not suffer from that want...
27183From James Madison to Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours, 3 December 1809 (Madison Papers)
I have recd. your favor of July 11. with the several setts of Mr. Turgot’s valuable works. I thank you much for the one which you were so good as to allot for myself; and have with great pleasure distributed the others according to their destinations. The copy for your son was delivered to Mr. Bauduy his partner in the useful establishment near Wilmington which I hope will be as profitable to...
27184From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 19 January 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr Harvie, a young gentleman who has lived with me since the departure of Captn. Lewis on his expedition up the Missouri, making a short visit to Paris, I have thought I ought not to deny him the advantage of your acquaintance. he has fine talents, great information, is moral & honourable. he is destined by his genius, acquirements and standing in society to run the career of political honour...
27185Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 29 November-14 December 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
In answering the several very kind letters I have recieved from you, I owe to yourself, and to the most able and estimable author of the Commentaries on Montesquieu to begin by assuring you that I am not the author of that work, and of my own consciousness that it is far beyond my qualifications. in truth I consider it as the most profound and logical work which has been presented to the...
27186From Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, 15 June 1772 (Franklin Papers)
Reprinted from Albert H. Smyth, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin … (10 vols., New York, 1905–07), V , 405–6. I am much obliged to you for introducing me to the Knowledge of Mr. le Marquis d’Ecrammeville, who appears a very amiable Man, with an excellent Understanding. Abraham Mansword’s Advice to his Countrymen is very good. I hope they will have more of it. Pray inform me by a Line,...
27187Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I recieved, my dear friend, your letter covering the Constitution of for your Equinoctial republics , just as I was setting out for this place. I brought it with me, and have read it with great satisfaction. I suppose it well formed for those for whom it is intended, and the excellence of every government is it’s adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it. for us, it would not do....
27188Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, André Thoüin, and Bartelémy de Faujas-Saint Fond, 16 May 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The bearer hereof, mr Robert M. Patterson , is son of mr Robert Patterson , professor of Mathematics in the college of Philadelphia , Director of the mint of the US. & a Vicepresident of the Philosophical society . having gone through his course of studies here he goes to Paris to advance his stock of knolege by the superior aids which that place affords. I have not the pleasure of being...
27189From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 1 November 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favors of Apr. 6. & June 27. were duly recieved, & with the welcome which every thing brings from you. the treaty which has so happily sealed the friendship of our two countries has been recieved here with general acclamation. some inflexible federalists have still ventured to brave the public opinion. it will fix their character with the world & with posterity, who not descending to the...
27190Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 28 February 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
My last to you was of Nov. 29. & Dec. 14. 13. since which I have recieved your’s of July 14 . I have to congratulate you, which I do sincerely on having got back from Robespierre and Bonaparte , to your ante-revolutionary condition. you are now nearly where you were at the Jeu de paume on the 20 th of June 1789. the king would then have yielded by convention freedom of religion, freedom of the...