"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]
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.
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."
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.
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
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
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.
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
First page of a proposed constitution for the Seneca Nation, drafted by Dr. Job Smith, an "old soldier of the revolution" and "a Chief and Physician of the Seneca Nation of Indians." Accompanied by a letter and business card (front and back) from Smith. New York
From Miolas Jacquemin, a missionary in Cayenne, French Guiana, describing violent effects of the French revolution on the colony. Madame Lafayette oversaw the management of the Lafayettes' Guiana settlement.
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
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]
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