Included are: the original articles of partnership of Du Pont, Bauduy & Co. signed June 19, 1810 by E. I. du Pont, Victor du Pont, Peter Bauduy, and Raphael Du Planty, for the operation of a woolen factory at Louviers, near Wilmington, Delaware, and the renewal of partnership, May 1, 1813, signed by the first three parties only; a note concerning the firm of Du Planty, McCall & Co., addressed to Raphael Du Planty in the hand of Victor du Pont; draft of proposed resolutions on the advantages of existing and proposed tariffs in the hand of E.I. du Pont; two memoranda on woolen tariffs in an unidentified hand; and a letter, attributed to David Humphreys, former United States Minister to Spain, to Aaron Dexter, of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, copy, unsigned and in an unidentified hand, entitled "Dissertation on the breed of Spanish sheep called Merinos" (Humphreys had returned from Spain with Merino sheep during the spring of 1802, and for his interest in improving the quality of American wool received the gold medal of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture).