Correspondence inquiring about Mr. Davis' late speech in Brooklyn, which Sophie heard about from Mrs. Charles du Pont. Sophie tells Mr. Davis about recent letters she has received from her husband about the war. Sophie also mentions taking care of...
Newspaper clipping offering an anecdote about Marion du Pont and a former employee along with a description of the Montpelier Horse Show on the grounds of William du Pont's Montpelier Estate.
Hendrick ends this business letter by asking McKinney about his dealings with the American Electric Vehicle Company. Hendrick enumerates their failures in his own dealings with them.
Hendrick begins this business letter with a paragraph about his automobiles. He compares his current steam carriage to the electric he owned before. Hendrick muses about building his own or having one built that will meet his expectations.
Letter to friend who is vacationing abroad, including a story about P. S. du Pont's speech before the Delaware legislature, information about General Motors stock, and teasing about womanizing.
Includes articles: How the Dial Is Made (about printing the magazine); The "Vonnie" Redeems Herself (about repairing a German liner "Kronprinz Wilhelm"); Finishing the Big Job (about former Morse employees in military service).
Includes articles: Making Promises Pay (about the Morse Hoboken office); An Interesting Visitor (on repairing a bark Souverian); Harder To Live Than To Die (About American Expeditionary Forces in France); Finishing the Big Job (about former Morse...
Hendrick reprimands the company for failing to reply to his communications. He has placed at two orders which he has not received and hears nothing about them. Hendrick has been enjoying his auto and wants to continue, but needs to have parts and...
Hendrick requests information about their battery. He intends to purchase an electric automobile, possibly a Columbia Surrey. Hendrick requires a battery of sufficient capacity to run a surrey 150 miles with one charge on good country roads such...
Hendrick writes to say that he is shipping his automobile to them today. He also discusses at length the design of the valve on the engine, a matter that he is very particular about but forgot to mention during his visit to Lockport. Hendrick...
Hendrick requests that Taunton reply to his earlier inquiries and adds a query about the height and diameter of the 10 horse boiler. Hendrick prefers their boiler to one from Salamandrine based on its lesser weight and appearance. The guarantee he...
Hendrick feels that the engine in his automobile in out of balance as it shakes the carriage very much. Hendrick is exasperated by the problems he is having with the automobile and its parts. He writes, when it is not one thing it is another. ...
Hendrick writes something of a commotion occurred under my car. The irregular tee gave out. Hendrick orders a new one and asks for instructions about how to adjust the fire regulator.
Anxious to have his automobile before snow falls, Hendrick writes to complain about the delay of the completion of his automobile on account of inability to get material.
Hendrick inquires about the catalogue he has requested which has not yet arrived, and about a 4 passenger steam carriage. There is a handwritten postscript which notes that the catalog has finally arrived and inquires about their surrey.
The E. I du Pont de Nemours & Company minute books document an important era in the history of the company from just before the turn of the twentieth century through the 1930s. The DuPont Company in this time went through many changes in structure...
Periodicals; Chemical industry; Firearms; Golf; Plastics industry; Textile industry; Pest control; Paint industry;
Table of Contents: The Kentucky rifle; Artists with a camera; Less worryin' on the greens; 50 years of tire progress; Chemistry's squeeze play; What do you know about air conditioning; Stop that fall; It says right here in Webster; Fashions in...
Letter from William's sister, Ellen, to William excited about the news that William and his wife are expecting. She implores him to travel to Lakewood to see his mother and tell her about it in person because she grieves for him terribly to be so...
