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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]
Lettre autographe signée de Joseph Reed,
Secretary of
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphie, 24 juillet 1825
2 pp. in-4
LA FIN DU
FAREWELL TOUR.
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. ÉCHOS DE REMARQUABLES
CONVERSATIONS SUR LE SYSTÈME PÉNITENCIAIRE
AMÉRICAIN, QUI ANNONCENT TOCQUEVILLE
“I have reflected after and seriously on the subject of the very short
conversation, I had the pleasure of having with you at the Mayor’s table
on Friday last. I allude to the penitentiary system, which you seemed
to think, and I fear truly, is in a degree at least to be abandoned here,
to what extent a change is contemplated by the plan of the new
penitentiary, which you visited, I am not precisely informed (...) As you
have had frequent opportunities, at different periods of your eventful
life, to observe the effects on the body as well as the intellect of the
prisoner (...) I feel the greater confidence in making the request from
the decided and animated manner in which you expressed those
sentiments and the interest you took in the subject”
Joseph Reed demande à Lafayette de lui exprimer par un
memorandum son point de vue sur le système pénitentiaire
américain.
800 / 1 200
€
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LAFAYETTE,
Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]
[Toast 27] Document autographe
Philadelphie, Mr Rush dinner, 25 juillet 1825
6 lignes, au crayon à papier
TOAST PRONONCÉ À WILMINGTON, EN L’HONNEUR DE
BRANDYWINE, LA PREMIÈRE BATAILLE À LAQUELLE A
PARTICIPÉ LAFAYETTE. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE.
TOAST IN WILMINGTON, IN THE HONOR OF BRANDYWINE,
THE FIRST BATTLE LAFAYETTE FOUGHT. LAFAYETTE’S
COPY
“the burrough of Wilmington and may the Brandywine, after having
been a bloddy dispute between the soldiers of liberty and the satellites
of oppression” (...)
“Although the heat continued excessive, he undertook, on
the 25
th
, his journey to Wilmington, where a great number
of Pennsylvanians and Virginians were in waiting to conduct
him to the field of the battle of Brandywine. This field was
not rendered illustrious by a victory, as has been said, but its
remembrance is not less dear to Americans, who gratefully
recollect the blood spilled there by their fathers, and by young
Lafayette, in the defence of their rights, and to secure their
independence” (Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, II, p. 234)
3 000 / 5 000
€
281
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