1. Letter to Lafayette's father-in-law, the duc d'Ayen

Description:

Breaking the news that Lafayette is now a general in the United States army [London]

Attribution:

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Date:

March 9, 1777

2. Lafayette's first American letter to his wife, Adrienne

Description:

Begun on board La Victorie on May 30, 1777 and completed at the house of M. Huger in South Carolinia on June 15, 1777. Lafayette reassures his wife that the rank of major-general is a guarantee of immortality, and reflects on his motives for undertaking this mission.

Attribution:

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Date:

1777

3. The battle plan for the American forces deployed at Brandywine on September 11, 1777

Description:

Lafayette was wounded in this battle, his first experience in the battlefield.

4. Excerpt of a letter from Lafayette to his wife, Adrienne

Description:

Lafayette describes his relationship with George Washington. [Near Valley Forge] (This is the twelfth letter in a booklet of letters sent from Lafayette in America that are copied in Adrienne's hand.)

Attribution:

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Date:

January 1778

5. Page from a letter to Lafayette's father-in-law, the duc d'Ayen

Description:

Describes the distribution of American troops

Attribution:

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Date:

September 11, 1778

6. Pages from an early draft of Lafayette's Mémoires

Description:

Page 32 and 33, giving an account of Lafayette's role in an Indian peace conference at Fort Schuyler, New York in 1784

7. Pages from a booklet of notes on French officers who served in the American War