Peter S. Du Ponceau to Thomas Jefferson, 5 January 1818
From Peter S. Du Ponceau
Philada 5th January 1818
Dear Sir
I do myself at present the honor merely to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter of the 30th ulto. The Committee are highly Sensible of the value of your Correspondence & of the important aid you have been pleased to give them Since their institution. They have expressed their Grateful Sense of it in a report to the Society, which will be presented at their meeting on Friday next, Specially called for that purpose.
In thus expressing their feelings the Committee well know that they are only anticipating those of the Society, who at their annual Election on Friday last have done themselves honor by placing you at the head of the List of their Counsellors. In doing So they had no wish but to let the world know that you are Still willing to be their guide and adviser, to excite confidence, & preserve the respect which it has acquired by being presided by Such men as Franklin, Rittenhouse & yourself. I hope the Volume of their Transactions which is Shortly to appear will be in Some degree worthy of these names.
| Peter S, Du Ponceau |
| Corresp. Secy |
The valuable inclosures accompanying your letters are received with thanks
RC (DLC); at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson, Esqr”; endorsed by TJ. FC (PPAmP: Historical and Literary Committee Letterbook). Recorded in SJL as received 14 Jan. 1818.
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- American Philosophical Society, Historical and Literary Committee; reports of search
- American Philosophical Society, Historical and Literary Committee; TJ sends works to search
- American Philosophical Society; and election of officers search
- American Philosophical Society; B. Franklin as president of search
- American Philosophical Society; D. Rittenhouse as president of search
- American Philosophical Society; TJ as counsellor of search
- American Philosophical Society; TJ as president of search
- American Philosophical Society; TJ forwards material to search
- American Philosophical Society; Transactions search
- Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen; and American Philosophical Society search
- Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen; and Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society search
- Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen; letters from search
- Franklin, Benjamin; as president of American Philosophical Society search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; sends manuscripts search
- Rittenhouse, David; as president of American Philosophical Society search