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Lettre signée par les membres du Steuben Monument
committee
Utica, New York 8 juin 1825
2 pp. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. INVITATION À INAUGURER
UN MONUMENT À LA MÉMOIRE DU BARON STEUBEN.
LAFAYETTE DEVRA DÉCLINER, TROP OCCUPÉ AUX
FESTIVITÉS DE BUNKER HILL
Les membres du
Steuben Monument committee
espèrent la venue
de Lafayette : “the erection of a Monument over the remains of
the late Baron Steuben”, signé par Jonas Platt, William Williams,
William H. Maynard, H. Bacon et T. Walker, AVEC UNE APOSTILLE
AUTOGRAPHE DE LAFAYETTE “Répondu”
This is one of the few engagements Lafayette was forced to
decline, for fear of missing the Bunker Hill commemoration.
The first signatory, Jonas Platt (1769-1834) had been County
Clerk of Oneida County, member of the New York State
Assembly and Senate, Associate Justice for the New York
Supreme Court and member of the Sixth US Congress.
400 / 600
€
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LAFAYETTE
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[Toast 15] Document manuscrit, probablement de la main de
Levasseur
Rochester, 7 juin 1825
7 lignes
TOAST PRONONCÉ À ROCHESTER. EXEMPLAIRE DE
LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN ROCHESTER. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Gal Lafayette toast at Rochester.
Rochester the county of Monroe, and the grand canal. May this work
of patriotic genius and republican spirit be more and more a source of
prosperity as it is an eternal honour to the state of New York”
Lafayette met veterans at the Silvius Hoard’s Tavern
1 000 / 1 500
€
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