107 / 239
106
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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
Documents manuscrits (7)
s.l.n.d.
1 p. in-folio, anonyme. “You, Sir, must feel, you will testify that America
still loves her liberties, her Washington and her Lafayette”
EXEMPLAIRES DE LAFAYETTE : QUELQUES DISCOURS
2. Anonyme. Invitation de Philadelphie, “the mayor has sent out to New
York a duplicate of the resolutions of the Council, the original of which
had been forwarded by him to the care of our ambassador in Paris”,
3
pp. in-8,
Philadelphie, [1824],
3. Anonyme
.
“A Bouquet for Genl Lafayette”,
s.l.n.d., 1 p. in-8 oblong.
4. Anonyme
.
“All hail land of Freedom !”,
1 p. in-4.
5. Document signé par John C. Arthurs. Admission de Lafayette dans
la “Newton Literary Society of the Western University of Pennsylvania-
Pittsburg”, [Pittsburgh],
s. d., 2 pp. in-4.
6. “to be delivered to General Lafayette by the Revd. Dn. Endnes, in the
name of the clergy of Lancaster (...) you have indeed become (...) one
of the great and ominent Benefactors of Mankind”,
1 p. in-8.
7. George L. Ashmead, Washington and Lafayette Society, “General
Lafayette, in the strong feelings of delight”...,
s.l. [mais sans doute
Philadelphie]
,
s. d., 2 pp. in-4.
200 / 300
€
203
[
LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de].
Lettre signée par six membres du Sénat (Samuel Smith,
Robert Y. Hayne et Dominique Bouligny) et de la Chambre des
Représentants (W.S. Archer, Stephen Van Rensselaer et Philip
S. Markley)
[Washington], 1er janvier 1825
2 pp. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. EN HOMMAGE AUX SERVICES
RENDUS ET AUX ENGAGEMENTS FINANCIERS PRIS PAR LE
JEUNE OFFICIER POUR LA CAUSE DE L’INDÉPENDANCE
AMÉRICAINE, LES DEUX CHAMBRES LUI ANNONCENT
QU’IL RECEVRA DES GRATIFICATIONS.
LAFAYETTE’S COPY. AS A TRIBUTE TO THE SERVICES
RENDERED AND THE FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS MADE
BY THE YOUNG OFFICER IN THE CAUSE OF AMERICAN
INDEPENDENCE, BOTH CHAMBERS TELL HIM THAT HE
WILL BE AWARDED SOME FINANCIAL REWARDS.
“THE CONFIDENCE AS WELL AS REQUEST OF THE TWO
HOUSES OF CONGRESS”
“the two Houses of Congress, aware of the large pecuniary as well as
other sacrifices which your long and arduous devotion to the cause
of freedom has cost you, have deemed it their privilege to reimburse
a portion of them, as having been incurred in part on account of the
United States. The principles which have marked your character will
not permit you to oppose any objection to the discharge of so much
of the national obligation to you. We are directed to express to you the
confidence as well as request of the two Houses of Congress, that you
will by an acquiescence with their wishes in this respect, add another
to the many and signal proofs you have afforded of your esteem for a
people whose esteem for you can never cease, until they have ceased
to prize the liberty they enjoy, and to venerate the virtues by which it
was acquired”
This is the letter making the formal announcement to Lafayette
that a bill was to be submitted to Congress that he be granted
$200,000 with 24,000 acres in Tallahassee, Florida :
“Mr Smith, the chairman, presented him the act, and observed that the
Congress of the United States, fully appreciating the great sacrifices
made by the General in the cause of American Independence, had
taken that opportunity of repaying a part of the vast debt owed to him
by the country. General Lafayette was greatly embarrassed on hearing
this munificence of Congress towards him. He was at first tempted
to refuse, as he thought the proofs of affection and popular gratitude
which he has received from the moment of his arrival in the United
States, were a sufficient recompense for all his services, and he had
never desired any other. But he nevertheless felt, from the manner in
which this offer was made, that he could not refuse it without offending
the American nation, through its representatives (Levasseur,
Lafayette
in America
, ii, p. 19).
RÉFÉRENCE : texte de cette lettre publié par Klamkin,
Return of
Lafayette
, p. 111
4 000 / 6 000
€
204
MORRIS
, Brother G. P.
[Imprimé]. Song ... to be sung by brother A. Keene, at the Grand
Masonic Dinner, given by the Fraternity in the City of New York,
in honour of their distinguished brother Gen. Lafayette
Nex York, Printed by brother P & H Van Pelt, 1825
1 p. in-8 agenda
CHANT D’INSPIRATION MAÇONNIQUE COMPOSÉ POUR
LA RÉCEPTION DE LAFAYETTE “AT THE GRAND MASONIC
DINNER” DE NEW YORK.
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE
500 / 800
€