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...
27191From 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...
27192From James Madison to Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours, 18 November 1811 (Madison Papers)
Your favor of July 4. was duly delivered, together with the two interesting manuscripts on Education & Finance, and the Books addressed to your son & others. The latter were disposed of according to your wishes. For the copy you were so good as to allot to myself, I return my thanks; and still more for your valuable ideas on those interesting subjects. I have run over the Manuscript on...
27193From 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...
27194Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 31 December 1815 (Jefferson Papers)
Nothing, my very dear and antient friend, could have equalled the mortification I felt on my arrival at home, and receipt of the information that I had lost the happiness of your visit. the season had so far advanced, and the weather become so severe, that together with the information given me by mr Correa , so early as September, that your friends even then were dissuading the journey I had...
27195From Benjamin Franklin to Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, 28 July 1768 (Franklin Papers)
ALS : Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum I received your obliging Letter of the 10th. of May, with the most acceptable Present of your Physiocratie , which I have read with great Pleasure, and received from it a great deal of Instruction. There is such a Freedom from local and national Prejudices and Partialities, so much Benevolence to Mankind in general, so much Goodness mixt with the...
27196From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 2 May 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
Your letters constantly announcing an early return to us, have prevented my writing to you, and even now I do it rather in the hope that this will not find you at Paris. under this uncertainty and knowing the interest you take in our affairs, I will only briefly say that during the present paroxysm of the insanity of Europe, we have thought it wisest to break off all intercourse with her. we...
27197From 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....
27198Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 3 August 1816 (Jefferson Papers)
I have just recieved a letter from M. de la Fayette , inclosing me the copy of one to you from M. Tracy dated Jan. 30. he is, as you now know, the author of the Review of Montesquieu . he sent it to me in the fall of 1809. but it was not until the spring of 1810. that I could engage the translating & printing of it. Duane then undertook both; which he did not complete till July 1811. on the 10...
27199Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 15 April 1811 (Jefferson Papers)
I have to acknolege the reciept of your letters of Jan. 20. & Sep. 14. 1810. and, with the latter, your Observations on the subject of taxes. they bear the stamps of logic & eloquence which mark every thing coming from you, & place the doctrines of the Economists in their strongest points of view. my present retirement & unmeddling disposition make of this une question oiseuse pour moi . but...
27200Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 28 June 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
The interruption of our commerce with England , produced by our embargo & non-intercourse law, & the general indignation excited by her bare-faced attempts to make us accessories & tributories to her usurpations on the high seas, have generated in this country an universal spirit of manufacturing for ourselves, & of reducing to a minimum the number of articles for which we are dependant on...
27201From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 20 March 1801 (Jefferson Papers)
How many hard struggles, my dear friend, would it save me, had I really parted with my last vice on the 3d. of March. I thought you had known me better: but as you do not, I must endeavor to conceal, if I cannot eradicate, what remains amiss. I recommended to the Secretary at war your proposition on the subject of clothing. he wishes to avail himself of it and has instructed the proper agent...
27202From Alexander Hamilton to Victor Marie Du Pont de Nemours, [30 January 1804] (Hamilton Papers)
I send you three Notes on account of my bond each for 800 Ds as agreed. On Saturday I took the bond in the Country & forgot to bring it to Town with the calculation; so that ⟨I m⟩ust defer the completion of the arrange⟨ment⟩ to my return from Albany. But you may consider it as done & in⟨form⟩ your correspondents accordingly. Yrs. with gre⟨at⟩ regard ALS , Mr. Henry Francis du Pont, Winterthur,...
27203From Alexander Hamilton to Victor Marie Du Pont de Nemours, 12 May 1804 (Hamilton Papers)
I now send you my bond with condition for the payment of One thousand & Twenty seven Dollars & seventy Eight Cents; which sum is thus composed— Ballance of principal and interest beyond my notes Ds. 60.23 Difference between simple & compound Interest 967.55 Ds 1027.78 The statement delivered to you some time since will explain this result. The Bond bears interest only from the first of...
27204From James Madison to Eleuthère Irénée DuPont, 18 November 1811 (Madison Papers)
In consequence of a wish expressed by your father in the last letter recd. from him, I mention to you, that a public vessel will sail in a few days from N. York for France, and that any letters you may wish to forward to him, will be taken charge of by the Bearer of dispatches to Mr. Barlow, if previously lodged with the Collector of that Port. No time therefore is to be lost in sending...
27205From Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère Irenée Du Pont, 17 January 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to Mr. Dupont & sends him Dr. Brown’s paper on the Salt peter caves & rocks of Kentucky, which he asks the return of to himself when he shall have read it. DeGH .
27206From Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère Irenée Du Pont, 22 December 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to mr Dupont and presuming he will know the residence of the person to whom the inclosed is addressed he takes the liberty of putting it under cover to him. it was addressed to Th:J. from France with a special request to have it safely delivered. Privately owned.
27207From James Madison to Eleuthère Irénée DuPont, 28 October 1809 (Madison Papers)
I recd. lately from your father a Copy of the Works of Mr. Turgot, for you, accompanying one which he was so good as to forward for myself. Having thus long waited in vain for an opportunity to Wilmington, other than the Mail, for which the Packet, Consisting of seven Vol: 8°., would be too large, I think it best to enable you, by this information, to cooperate in seeking a proper conveyance....
27208From Thomas Jefferson to Eleuthère Irenée Du Pont, 28 February 1809 (Jefferson Papers)
On the reciept of your letter of the 11th. inst. mr Gallatin undertook to write to mr Gelston Collector of N.Y. that we consented to the Mentor’s recieving and bringing for you the Merino Sheep which were the subject of that letter. it followed that you would have to make your arrangements with the Captain as; by his contract, the benefit would be his. I am sorry the pressure of business did...
27209From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont, 15 February [1788] (Jefferson Papers)
I am much obliged to you, Sir, for the communication of the draught of the Arret. I am sure there never would have come a single cod-fish to the entrepots: therefore I am curious to know what were the real motives which produced this opposition. I shall so represent the matter in my letters as that nothing shall be thought of it. I have the honour to be with great thankfulness for your favors,...
27210From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont, [before 5 November 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
Monsieur Jefferson a l’honneur de souhaiter le bon jour à Monsieur du Pont, et de le prier d’accepter une exemplaire du livre de M. Adams . Il lui sera bien obligé pour son projet de la lettre de M. Lambert à M. de la Boullaye, il la renverra tout de suite. Pourroit Monsieur du Pont, sans s’incommoder, procurer pour M. Jefferson copie de la memoire de la ferme? Il lui en seroit infiniment...
27211From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont, [6 November 1787] (Jefferson Papers)
Je vous renvoye, Monsieur votre Lettre et vous en remercie, et continue d’esperer que vous pourrez me procurer le Memoire des Fermiers Generaux. A ces Sentiments de reconnaissance de vos bontés j’en joins d’autres pour le pamphlet que vous m’avez envoyé au sujet des hopitaux, dans lequel je trouve cette exactitude geometrique d’idée qui caracterise tout ce qui sort de votre plume. Lorsque la...
27212From Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont, 6 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson has the honour of sending to Monsieur Dupont a copy of the Statement of purchases of tobacco made by the Farmers general. According to this it would seem that they have purchased 16573 hogsheads on the conditions prescribed by the order of Berni . That order was for about 12, or 15,000 hogsheads. M. de Vergennes, in his letter, fixes it at 15,000 hogsheads absolutely. But take...
27213From Thomas Jefferson to Victor Dupont, 6 October 1787 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Jefferson has the honour of presenting his compliments to Monsieur Dupont le fils, and begs the favor of him to deliver the inclosed letter personally, to it’s address, as he would wish to make Monsieur Dupont acquainted with this gentleman whom he will find an agreeable and useful acquaintance. RC ( NN ); endorsed. Not recorded in SJL . Enclosure: TJ to Robert R. Livingston , same date.
27214From Thomas Jefferson to Victor Marie du Pont, 12 August 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his compliments to mr Dupont and incloses him a letter just recieved under cover from his father. RC ( DeGH ); addressed: “Mr. Victor Dupont New York”; franked; endorsed by du Pont. Enclosure: probably Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours to his sons, Victor and Éleuthère Irénée, 4 Apr. (see Vol. 43:394n ).
27215From Thomas Jefferson to Victor Marie du Pont, 7 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Your kindness on a former occasion has emboldened me to trouble you again for a draught on Paris of the value of 200. Dollars, for which sum I inclose you a check on the New York branch bank. my apology is that it shall be the last time for the present year , and that I am really so helpless in things of this kind that like other helpless beings I throw myself on the charity of the benevolent....
27216From Thomas Jefferson to Victor Marie du Pont, 10 July 1804 (Jefferson Papers)
Having occasion to remit a sum of 250. Dollars to Stephen Cathalan of Marseilles, I take the liberty of asking a renewal of your former indulgence by giving me a bill of that value on your house in Paris, for which purpose I inclose you a post note for that sum drawn on the bank of the US. at New York by the branch bank here. it will be best that the bill should be payable to mr Cathalan...
27217From Thomas Jefferson to Victor Marie du Pont, 10 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Th: Jefferson presents his salutations to M. duPont is thankful to him for the accomodation of his bill of exchange, and offers of notice when there shall be a conveyance. to save him this trouble he gives him that of recieving his letter to mr Skipwith and forwarding it by any conveyance he approves. RC ( DeGH ). Enclosure: TJ to Fulwar Skipwith, 4 May.
27218From Thomas Jefferson to Victor Marie du Pont, 4 May 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
Mr. Dupont your father informed me he should have occasion to remit considerable sums of money from France to the US. the small matter for which I have occasion cannot be proposed as a convenience to him, but to myself alone. I wish to place 400. Dollars in Paris for the purchase of some wine, and know not how to remit it there. if it be convenient for you to give me your draught on your...
27219From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 13 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
I received with much pleasure your letter of the 8th from Philadelphia, & sincerely congratulate you on your liberation from Captivity, and safe arrival at that place. I shall set out the day after tomorrow for New Port. had you not So lately come off a long & tiresome journey, I should have been glad of your company thither—but this being impracticable, & there being no immediate occasion for...
27220From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 31 October 1778 (Washington Papers)
I have received your favour of the 20th, inclosing your remarks on the state of the fortifications already erected for the defence of the Town of Boston, and on such amendments and additions as appear to you necessary to render them effectual. Your reasonings and observations appear to be strong and well founded; but at this distance, and without so perfect a knowlege of the local...
27221From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 24 November 1778 (Washington Papers)
The estimate you delivered me some time since of the Cannon wanted for the works of West Point, having been, by some accident mislaid, I am to request you will deliver a copy of it to the President of Congress—which you will be pleased to do as speedily as possible. I am With great consideration and esteem—Sir Your most Obed. servant. Df , in Alexander Hamilton’s writing, DLC:GW ; Varick...
27222From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 29 March 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am sorry to find by yours of the 20th that you have met with so many delays and disappointments in the prosecution of your plan for taking a survey of the Delaware. Altho’ I am anxious to see you in Camp, I shall be very unwilling to recall you while there is the least prospect of your rendering any service; I must therefore desire you to point out to that public Body before which you may...
27223From George Washington to Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle Duportail, 23 September 1783 (Washington Papers)
I was this day in conference with a Commee of Congress upon the subject of your letter to me of the 16th Instt—they discovered every disposition to relieve the the Gentln of your departmt from the state of uncertainty in wch they are at prest, but wished previous to their making a report to Congress to obtain your Sentiments more in detail upon a proper Peace establishment for the Engineering...
27224From George Washington to Duportail, 20 August 1784 (Washington Papers)
The Marqs de la Fayette who arrived at this place on tuesday last, gave me the pleasure of receiving your letter dated at Paris the 16th of June—& of learning from it, that you had not relinquished the idea of visiting a Country, on whose theatre you have acted a conspicuous part. Be assured Sir, that at whatever time, & under whatever circumstances this may happen, I shall be among the first...
27225From Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. to Antoine-Jean-Louis Le Bègue de Presle Duportail, 26 July 1781 (Washington Papers)
I am directed by the Comander in Chief to transmitt to you the inclosed Copy of Charges made against Majr Moreman, by Capt. Billings—upon which His Excellency desires you will order Majr Moreman under an Arrest—At the Same Time the General desires that Majr Moreman’s Charges against Capt. Livermore may be transmitted to the Adjutant General, who has Order to have Capt. Livermore put into...
27226From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 29 September 1778 (Washington Papers)
You will proceed forthwith to Boston in the State of Massachusettes Bay. You will examine into the state of the fortifications which have been erected and are erecting for the defence of that Town against a Land attack; and you will form a plan, from a view of the whole local situation of the place, which shall appear best calculated to give it the most effectual security, that circumstances...
27227From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 22 September 1779 (Washington Papers)
I am to request you will give instruction to your assistants attached to the different works—to turn their attention to the barracks necessary at each to cover the men required to be constantly stationed for the immediate security of the respective posts—and the places at which it will be most proper to erect them—Were it not for the difficulty of transporting materials to those high mountains...
27228From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 27 March 1780 (Washington Papers)
Notwithstanding the occasion we should have for your services in this quarter should any active operations commence, the critical situation of Charles Town and the importance of that place induce me to wish you were there. I am doubtful whether you can arrive in time; but I have submitted the matter to Congress to determine according to the advices they have received. The letter to them is...
27229From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 8 February 1779 (Washington Papers)
Congress has by an act of the 2d inst. directed me to order an Engineer to proceed to south Carolina for the service of the southern Department—if I shd judge it necessary. As I think the presence of a skilful Engineer indispensible in that Country I am to desire that you will detach one of the Corps—with directions to repair to Charles Town and take the orders of Major General Lincoln or the...
27230From George Washington to Brigadier General Duportail, 21 February 1781 (Washington Papers)
My Visit to the French Army at Rhode Island has been delayed by important business & must necessarily be retarded a while longer. There are particular reasons which makes me anxious to have you along with me in this tour. If it is not inconvenient to you therefore to leave Philadelphia immediately, I should be glad if you would join me as soon as possible—That I may know certainly whether you...