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Lettre signée par Daniel Jackson, Francis Green et Robert
Williams
Boston, 20 juin 1825
3 pp. in-4, filigrané “S&A Butler US”
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. TROIS OFFICIERS VÉTÉRANS
DU MASSACHUSETTS RÉCLAMENT UNE PENSION ET
S’ADRESSENT AU “ONLY SURVIVING GENERAL OF THE
REVOLUTION ARMY”.
JOINT : UN RARE EXEMPLAIRE DE LEUR PÉTITION
IMPRIMÉE
Ces trois officiers vétérans ont formé un Committee (“the Surviving
Revolutionary Officers”) qui prépare “a petition to Congress, for
Compensation, in consequence of losses they sustain’d, by the manner
in which they were paid during the War, and the depreciated value of the
Certificates they receiv’d, in final settlement of their accounts (...) You
are now Sir, the only surviving General of the Revolutionary army, and
no man living, is better acquainted with the toils and dangers, which
were suffer’d during that contest. Few, very few, of your associates are
now alive ; and it is the lot of those few, in the decline of their lives, to be
in indigence”. AVEC UNE APOSTILLE AUTOGRAPHE DE LAFAYETTE
“Answer’d to be kept”
JOINT : un rare exemplaire de leur pétition imprimée
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Lettre manuscrite
[17 juin 1825]
2 pp. in-4, marge intérieure irrégulière car la page a été ôtée d’un cahier
LETTRE SIGNÉE PAR “A DAUGHTER OF COLUMBIA”
“On this day, which hallows with Freedom’s holiest tears the memory
of the dead, which gladdens with her brightest smiles the hearts of
the living, on this proud day, accept, chieftain, honoured and dear,
a humble and inadequate token of affection from one who loves to
remember that the name of Lafayette stands high on the brilliant
records of her country’s fame”
The 17
th
June 1825 was the fiftieth anniversary of Bunker Hil.
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Lettre signée par les douze membres du “Committee” d’Albany
Albany, 23 juin 1825
2 pp. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. “THE NORTH STEAM RIVER
BOAT COMPANY” AFFRÈTE L’UN DE SES BATEAUX POUR
TRANSPORTER LAFAYETTE D’ALBANY VERS NEW YORK
Invitation à un “public Dinner to be given at Mr Cruttenden’s
in this City” et l’informant que “the North River Steam Boat
Company have politely requested us in their behalf to offer the
use of one of their boats to convey you from this City to New
York”
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[Toast 16] Document autographe signé
Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Boston, 17 juin 1825
14 lignes
TOAST DE BUNKER HILL, BATAILLE INAUGURALE DE LA
GUERRE D’INDÉPENDANCE. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE.
TOAST OF BUNKER HILL, INAUGURAL BATTLE OF THE WAR
OF INDEPENDENCE. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Gal Lafayette rose and expressed himself in the following words.
Gentlemen, I will no longer trespass on your time than to thank you
in the name of my Revolutionary companions in arms and (?) for the
testimonies of affection, I may say, of filial affection which have been
bestowed upon us on the memorable celebration of this anniversary
day, and to offer our fervent prayers for the preservation of that
republican freedom, equality and self government, that blessed Union
Democracy the states of the confederacy for which we have fought and
bled and on which rest the hopes of mankind, permit me to propose
the following sentiment :
Bunker’s Hill and the Holy Resistance to oppression which has already
enfranchised the American Hemisphere. The next half century jubilee’s
toast shall be to enfranchised Europe”