"Articles de Mariage" setting out the terms (primarily financial) of the sixteen-year-old Lafayette's marriage to Adrienne de Noailles, who was thirteen [Paris]
Date:
October 1772
Physical Location:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 10 Folder 44
Philippe Beauchet was the Lafayettes' business agent and friend, introducing their plans to move to La Grange and pursue the agricultural life. Lafayette studied agriculture while in prison.
Attribution:
Madame Lafayette
Date:
ca. 1800
Physical Location:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661
Summary includes: 1) Lafayette describes and discusses the provenance of his farm machinery and livestock 2) Lafayette sets out the costs of feeding "des cochons a la piggery pendant .....1828."
Physical Location:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661
Written upon receiving a copy of Lafayette's Memoires, and in which Cooper muses on the dissipation of American ideals since General Lafayette's heyday. Lafayette had died in 1834.
Attribution:
Cooper, James Fenimore
Date:
1839
Physical Location:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661
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
Physical Location:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661
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
Physical Location:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661
The ornamental penmanship, embossed borders and pink ribbon make this an especially impressive example of the hundreds of letters and addresses presented to Lafayette in the course of his grand American Tour of 1824.
Attribution:
Lexington Female Academy
Physical Location:
Arthur H. and Mary Marden Dean Lafayette Collection, Collection 4661 Box 91 Folder 2
Written by a Masonic brother "S. Woodworth" in New York, to be sung to the tune of "Hail to the Chief" at the grand Masonic Dinner, given by the Fraternity in the City of New York in honor of Gen. Lafayette
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