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Lettre autographe signée par John Griscom et contresignée
par Daniel Barnes
New York, 4 juillet 1825
3 pp. in-4, papier filigrané “S&A Butler US”
EXEMPLAIREDELAFAYETTE. LA “NEWYORKHIGHSCHOOL”
DEMANDE AU GÉNÉRAL DE L’AIDER À RENCONTRER LES
“PHILANTHROPIC SAVANS OF PARIS”
“we are happy to acknowledge our obligations to such men as a
Lasteyrie, a Gerandi, a Jomard, a Laborde, a Renouard (...) we shall be
gratified, if thro’ the kind instrumentality of General Lafayette, we may
be able to maintain a literary intercourse with some of these estimable
men ; and by the mutual interchange of intelligence and good offices,
contribute to the more extensive diffusion of knowledge”
New York High School had been established in 1824 by the
chemist John Griscom (1774-1852) in partnership with the
zoologist and geologist Daniel H. Barnes (1785-1828), the
school being notable for its emphasis in teaching natural
history. Both founders are signing the present letter. The
datation of it being partly in Quaker style.
500 / 800
€
265
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LAFAYETTE
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Lettre autographe signée par Lewis Condict
Morristown, New Jersey, 5 juillet 1825
1 p. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. INVITATION DE LEWIS
CONDICT À VISITER MORRISTOWN, LIEU MYTHIQUE DE
LA GUERRE D’INDÉPENDANCE : C’EST LÀ QUE LAFAYETTE
APPRIT À WASHINGTON L’ENGAGEMENT DE LA FRANCE
LE 10 MAI 1780.
MORRISTOWN : “THE MILITARY CAPITAL OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION”
Lewis Condict renouvelle l’invitation faite par les citoyens de
Morristown : “invitation...to visit this village before you shall return to
Europe”
Lewis Condict (1772-1862), born in Morristown and who had a
largemedical practice there, served for many years as amember
for New Jersey in the House of Representatives. Although
still a village (as described in this letter), Morristown is often
described as “the military capital of the American Revolution”.
It was several time used by Washington as his Headquarter
being halfway between New York and Philadelphia. It was
here that, on May 10, 1780, Lafayette brought Washington and
Hamilton news of his successful mission to enlist the French
aid : ships and trained soldiers for the Continental Army.
3 000 / 5 000
€
266
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LAFAYETTE
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Lettre autographe signée par trois enfants de New York ; une
l.a.s. de Nath. Irw. (2)
New York, 7 juillet 1825
2 pp. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. LES ENFANTS DE NEW YORK :
“OUR BELOVED WASHINGTON, FRANKLIN, CLINTON AND
LAFAYETTE”
“your happy arrival, in our country has renewed the recollections of
the momentous events of the Revolution. From our earliest infancy
we have been taught to lisp with reverence the revered names of our
beloved Washington, Franklin, Clinton, and Lafayette”, signé par S.
Mumford Jr., Ann L. Mumford et Emma R. Mumford Gurdon
2. “On behalf of the Young Men, citizens and residents of the District of
Southwark Townships” etc.
2 pp. in-4,
Southwark
, s. d.
The children’s father, Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford (1764-
1831), had served as private secretary to Franklin in Paris and
afterwards as US Representative for New York.
200 / 300
€
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LAFAYETTE
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Lettre autographe signée par Samuel Prioleau
Charleston, 9 juillet 1825
1 p. in-4
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. LA VILLE DE CHARLESTON
OFFRE À LAFAYETTE UNE MINIATURE DU COLONEL HUGER
PAR CHARLES FRASER. SON PÈRE, BENJAMIN HUGER,
L’AVAIT HÉBERGÉ À SON ARRIVÉE EN AMÉRIQUE ; LE FILS,
FRANCIS HUGER, ORGANISA SA TENTATIVE D’ÉVASION DE
LA FORTERESSE D’OLMUTZ. “YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE
MINIATURE OF COLONEL FRANCIS K. HUGER”
“I have the honor to request on behalf of the City of Charleston your
acceptance of the miniature of Colonel Francis K Huger herewith
handed you”, avec UNE APOSTILLE AUTOGRAPHE DE LAFAYETTE,
au crayon : “Répondue”.
The portrait was by Charles Fraser of Charleston (1782-1860),
who also painted a miniature of Lafayette. Huger was the son
of Benjamin Huger, Lafayette’s host when he had first arrived
in America nearly fifty years earlier, and had made a daring
attempt to spring Lafayette from the Austrian fortress of
Olmütz in 1794 :
“At Charleston, the festivities of reception were rendered doubly
interesting and grateful, by the presence of Colonel Francis K. Huger,
the same who, thirty years before, had risked his life, and suffered a
long imprisonment, in the effort to aid the escape of Lafayette from the
castle of Olmutz (...) Everywhere the name of Huger was inscribed by