Digital Facsimiles Lafayette and Political & Social Causes 9 éléments

Over 10,000 items comprise the Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection. A sampling of sixty images and documents have been digitized and are presented in this web site, organized into seven thematic categories.

Browse items in the "Lafayette and Political & Social Causes" category below.

1. A letter from Emma Hart Willard

Description:: Expressing her affection for Lafayette and describing the oppression of women in Greece and a plan to educate them. [Troy, NY.]
Attribution:: Willard, Emma Hart
Date:: May 1, 1833

2. Transcription of a conversation with the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte about Haiti

Description:: The writer, who recounts meetings with both the king of northern Haiti and the president of the new Haitian republic, seems to have been a diplomat formerly in the service of the king of France
Date:: 1815

3. Letter from Italian revolutionary leader and exile General Giuseppe Mazzini to "Le Moniteur" deploring allegations that he was involved in an assassination

Attribution:: Mazzini, General Giuseppe
Date:: June 14, 1833

4. Excerpt of a letter from Polish leader Niemojowski to Lafayette

Description:: First page, second page and final page. Describing Russia's attempt to crush Polish nationalism and descrying the French government's lack of support. [Paris]
Date:: December 22, 1831

5. Signatures of Polish refugees in France, on a letter of thanks to General Lafayette

Date:: March 1, 1833

6. American newspaper articles deploring the French military's "domicilary visit" to La Grange, Lafayette's provincial estate, where they arrested a Polish patriot who had been banned from Paris

Description:: New York Commercial Advertiser April 27, 1833. Albany Daily Advertiser, April 18, 1833. Samuel Morse, author of one, sent these articles to Lafayette. Lewellel, the Pole in question, was an eminent historian. This episode was seen as symptomatic of the abuses committed by the government Lafayette himself had helped to install during the "Three Days" of the "Glorious Revolution" of 1830.
Date:: 1833

7. Letter to Lafayette (first page)

Attribution:: Lelewe, Joachim
Date:: July 14, 1833

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