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).

Including: general inventory of total amounts of raw materials, manufactured products, real estate, buildings, debts and debtors, agents and powder on hand, and effective capital of the company, copy, compiled by Peter Bauduy, Raphael Du Planty, and Victor du Pont; accounts of expenditures for Joseph Charles Dalmas, and for Auguste D'Autremont, both in the hand of E.I. du Pont; inventory of materials at Eleutherian Mills and at Hagley, with record of losses by explosion, in the hand of E.I. du Pont; inventory of powder at Hagley; inventory of powder and saltpetre at Eleutherian Mills; inventory of powder at Hagley; inventory, including assets and debts, of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.

Chiefly drafts and copies in the hand of E.I. du Pont, concerning the crisis in company finances before and during the Philadelphia banking crisis of March 1819, and including letters by du Pont to the Bank of Wilmington and Brandywine, James Black, Samuel Briscoe, Bernard Dahlgren, P.P.F. De Grand, Anthony Girard, William Gray, William Kemble, Archibald McCall, John Mason, James Partridge, Evan Thomas, John Vaughan, and William Warner; also a letter from Victor du Pont to E.I. du Pont, concerning claims of Raphael Du Planty against the company, and agreement between E.I. du Pont and William Cornell, and agent, for powder and a loan.

Concerning company business and related matters. Letters from his son-in-law, James Antoine Bidermann (1790-1865) were written from various places visited by Bidermann while on company business, and include: references to his search for saltpetre in Kentucky; the submission of Spanish colonies in South America to King Ferdinand VII, and the consequent lessening of need for the publication of du Pont de Nemours' treatise, "Memoire aux Republiques equinoxiales;" the failure of company agents, Ridgway & Balch; false hopes for sale of Du Pont powder to Baltimore brokers for shipment to South America, and the effect upon the Du Pont mills; competition with British powder in the New York market, forcing a lowering in price; E.I. du Pont's hopes for powder orders from the Navy Department; the tannery of A. Cardon & Co.; settlement with Madame Bureaux de Pusy. Also a letter from Madame Bureaux de Pusy and one from Jacques Antoine Bidermann, of Paris; and a note regarding Madame Bureaux de Pusy's suit against E.I. du Pont and others, and a note regarding the heirs of Jacques Antoine Bidermann, of Paris, signed by E.I. du Pont, together with a copy of the inventory of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., 1828, being a duplicate of one reported in above file.

Relating to the production of powder; written during Moreau's exile in the United States.

Related to affairs of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Madame Bureaux de Pusy, Victor du Pont, Charles Francois Parent, and E.I. du Pont, being drafts and copies of which 62 are in the latter's. These should be compared with those in the company letter books, above. The letters relate to powder prices, sales, supplies of raw material and equipment for the powder factory, powder tests, rules and records of workers, the controversy E.I. du Pont had with Thomas Ewell, a worker's indenture, the voyage of Madame Bureaux de Pusy to America in 1811, and the sale of sheep. Letters are addressed to: John Bennet, James Biddle, Vincent Bonsal, Richard Bowden & Co., Brugiere & Teisseire, Thomas Brooks, D.P. Brown, John Chew, Tench Coxe, J.D.P. Dows & Co., Raphael Du Planty, [Claudius G.?] Fontaine, T. Garnier, Joshua and Thomas Gilpin, Anthony Girard, James Gilvin, Charles W. Goldsborough, John Gundacker, R. Hayes, Benjamin Herr, John Hollyday, Jean Guillaume (Baron Hyde de Neuville), George Ingels, George D.B. Keim, Aubin Laforest, Honore Landreau, Archibald McCall, Patrick McConnoway, McLoskey, Hagan & Co., William Moore, John Mullowny, Mr. Night [Knight?], Charles Francois Parent, P. Perry, Mr. Piollet, William Proctor, Sallows Shewell, Thomas Shewell, Francis Gurney Smith, Mr. Stone, William Thornton, Anne Louis Tousard, John Vaughan, and Peter Whiteside. Also included are: accounts with Charles Francois Parent; and a letter of C. Baker, captain of a company of the Junior Artillerists of Philadelphia, to E.I. du Pont, concerning an encampment at Camp Dupont, near Wilmington, in 1834.

Including original articles of agreement by which the company was founded, entitled "Acte d'association pour l'etablissement d'une manufacture de poudre de guerre et de chasse dans les Etats-Unis d'Amerique," signed at Paris, with addenda dated May 4, 1808 and December 31, 1809, signed by E.I. du Pont, and a notation recording the fact that this document was placed in evidence during the suit of Peter Bauduy v. E.I. du Pont et al., in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware in 1817; certified copy of the articles of agreement signed at Paris April 21, 1801, with notarization signed by Peter S. Du Ponceau at Philadelphia, May 4, 1808, and the certification of Louis Auguste Felix de Beaujour, Consul General of France, at Philadelphia; contract of du Pont de Nemours, Pere et Fils & Cie, of New York, E.I. du Pont, and Peter Bauduy, concerning the role and interest of Bauduy in operations of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.; contract of du Pont de Nemours, Pere et Fils & Cie, E.I. du Pont, and Peter Bauduy, revising terms of the agreement with contemporary copy; English translation of the contract in the hand of Raphael Du Planty, with emendations in the hand of Victor du Pont; agreement of partners and shareholders of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. to purchase the shares held by Peter Bauduy, with notation recording the fact that this document was placed in evidence during the suite of Peter Bauduy v. E.I. du Pont, et al., in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware; agreement of partners and shareholders of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. for the division of shares formerly held by Peter Bauduy; contract between du Pont de Nemours and Charles Francois Parent, concerning Parent's services in the powder factory of E.I. du Pont de Nemours, signed at Paris, with certification of Fulwar Skipwith, American consul at Paris; memorandum entitled "Observations sur le projet d'engagement entre Monsieur Dupont et Parent" in an unidentified hand, with annotations in the hand of du Pont de Nemours; agreement between du Pont de Nemours and Jean Victor Auguste Menestrier, covering loan of 100,000 francs to du Pont de Nemours, copy (Menestrier was acting as gent for Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, Minstre des Relations Exterieures, who lent the money); mortgage of du Pont de Nemours to Menestrier of eleven shares of stock in the firm of E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. with certification of Fulwar Skipworth, American consul at Paris.