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BLESCOE
, Jesse
Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette
Lexington, 19 mai 1825
3 pp. in-4, suscription (“M. Georges Washington Lafayette Wheeling
Virga”)
Jesse Bledsoe envoie l’adresse qu’il devait donner en mains propres
à Lafayette à Louisville
Jesse Bledsoe (1776-1836) was a prominent lawyer who had
served as US Senator for Kentucky and was Professor of Law
at Transylvania University.
100 / 150
€
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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
Document manuscrit, copie sans doute par Levasseur
[Cincinnati], [19 mai 1825]
2 pp. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. SON DISCOURS DEVANT LA
LOGE MAÇONNIQUE DE CINCINNATI
“Masonic Lodge of Cincinnati. I am happy to find myself in this
respected Reunion of Masonic Lodges, surrounded by the sons of my
companions, in the cause of Independance and freedom. The names
of Harrison, Morgan, Burnet, my beloved Nevill (...) which have been for
half a century dear to my heart”
This is the copy of a Lafayette speech not published (nothing
in Gottschalk) but simply recorded by Levasseur : “he was M.
Morgan Neville, son of Major Neville, his former aide de camp
and friend, and grandson, on his mother side of the celebrated
Morgan, who made for himself so great a reputation for his
skill and bravery at the head of a corps of partisans (...) and
we proceeded with a large procession to the Freemason hall
where several lodges were gathered” (Levasseur,
Lafayette in
America
, A. R. Hoffmann, 2007, p. 448).
300 / 500
€
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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 12] Document autographe
Washington, Pennsylvania, 25 mai 1825
7 lignes
TOAST PRONONCÉ À WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIE.
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN WASHINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA. LAFAYETTE’S
COPY
“After the general’s Health had been drunk he rose and having
expressed his aknowlegments, he proposed the following toast :
The county and town of Washington : may their prosperity for ever go
hand in hand with the glory of the name.
Gal Lafayette’s Volunteer toast : the ancient representative from
Greene and Washington’s Counties who has proved himself equally
eminent in the national Congress, in the cabinet and in the American
transatlantic diplomacy”
“We entered the state of Pennsylvania by Washington,
Brownsville, Uniontown etc. In all this route, the general found the
Virginia and Pennsylvania population in the same dispositions
as in the preceding year ; that is to say, the people everywhere
crowding his way, and conferring upon him the greatest honours.
The little town of Washington, the seat of justice for the county
of the same name, distinguished itself by the brilliancy of its
festivals” (Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, II, p. 179)
2 000 / 3 000
€
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