Victor du Pont and Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours to Thomas Jefferson, 11 August 1817
From Victor du Pont and Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours
Brandywine. August 11th 1817
Sir
Knowing that you have honored with your friendship our excellent & much lamented father we think it our duty to inform you of his death, which took place on the 7th instant after a very severe and painfull illness of eleven days—
you will find in the national intelligencer in Niles Register and in the Aurora a short notice of his life; not much known in this Country which is the Country of his Children & Great Children we thought it was proper to publish a Sketch in order to point out his worth & his deeds, and hope it will meet with your approbation—
We inclose a pamphlet on education received by him few weeks ago with a request to forward you one.
| V. du Pont |
| E. I. du Pont. |
RC (DLC); in Victor du Pont’s hand, signed by Victor du Pont and Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours; at head of text: “Thomas Jefferson Esq’e Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as a letter from Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours received <28> 29 Aug. 1817 and so recorded in SJL. Enclosure: Marc Antoine Jullien, Esquisse et Vues Préliminaires d’un Ouvrage sur l’Éducation Comparée … et Séries de Questions sur l’Éducation (Paris, 1817; , 5 [no. 211]; TJ’s copy in DLC: Rare Book and Special Collections, with handwritten, signed inscription by Jullien dated Paris, 1 Apr. 1817: “À Monsieur jefferson, Ancien président des Etats-Unis,
Hommage d’estime respectueuse de la part de l’auteur, qui lui a déjà offert, il y a neuf ans, un Essai Général d’Education physique, morale et intellectuelle, et qui désire vivement qu’un citoyen aussi distingué veuille appuyer de son suffrage dans sa patrie l’entreprise philantropique dont on ébauche ici le plan” [“To Mr. Jefferson, former president of the United States, a tribute of respectful esteem on the part of the author, who has already sent him nine years ago his Essai Général d’Éducation physique, morale, et intellectuelle, and who has a lively hope that such a distinguished citizen would like to support by his commendation, in his country, the philanthropic enterprise outlined in this plan”]).
The notice of the life of Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours is in the Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 15 Aug. 1817, and Baltimore Niles’ Weekly Register, 16 Aug. 1817.
Index Entries
- Aurora (Philadelphia newspaper); prints P. S. Du Pont de Nemours’s obituary search
- Baltimore, Md.; newspapers search
- du Pont, Victor Marie; and father’s death search
- du Pont, Victor Marie; letters from search
- du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthère Irénée; and father’s death search
- du Pont de Nemours, Eleuthère Irénée; letters from search
- Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel; death of search
- education; books on search
- Esquisse et Vues Préliminaires d’un Ouvrage sur l’Éducation Comparée … et Séries de Questions sur l’Éducation (M. A. Jullien) search
- Essai Général d’Éducation physique, morale, et intellectuelle (M. A. Jullien) search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; works sent to search
- Jullien, Marc Antoine; Esquisse et Vues Préliminaires d’un Ouvrage sur l’Éducation Comparée … et Séries de Questions sur l’Éducation search
- Jullien, Marc Antoine; Essai Général d’Éducation physique, morale, et intellectuelle search
- National Intelligencer (Washington newspaper); prints P. S. Du Pont de Nemours’s obituary search
- newspapers; BaltimoreNiles’ Weekly Register search
- newspapers; PhiladelphiaAurora search
- Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore newspaper) search
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