[Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, economist, to Firmin Didot, Paris publisher.] Autograph Letter Signed ('du Pont (de Nemours)')

1p, 12mo. On bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with stub from mount adhering. At head of page, in nineteenth-century hand: 'Dupont de Nemours'. Twenty lines of text, with another two lines deleted, in an untidy hand of uncertain interpretation. He is sending 'six exemplaires du 1er et du 9eme. volume des oeuvres de Mr [?]'. References follow to 'Mr Bidermann', and to the 'premieres épreuves' of 'portraits'. He announces: 'Je vais faire tirer cent autres portraits, et je ferai brocher les exemplaires'. Du Pont fled the French Revolution and settled and died in the United States. His son Éleuthère Irénée du Pont founded one of the leading American businesses of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.