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WEBSTER
, Daniel
Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette ; et
d’autres lettres adressées au même (12)
Washington, mars 1836
1 p. in-4
ENSEMBLE DE LETTRES ADRESSÉE À GEORGES
WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE POUR LES ANNÉES 1836 ET 1837
“Allow me to introduce to M. Professor Hall”...
2. L.a.s. de Virgil David, “I am requested by the Lamenceville Lyceum
to solicit at your hands a volume for its Library”...,
1 p. in-4
, Pittsburgh,
17 avril 1826
3. Une autre lettre du même, “I am not certain whether I have ever
transmitted to you the following Resolve”...,
1 p. in-4
, Pittsburgh, 22
février 1837 (3)
4. L.a.s. de Henry Gramthugh (nom illisible), “Presuming that you know
many of the officers or their representatives who were with your late
Father engaged in the service of the United States in our war of the
Revolution”..., suit une liste d’officiers français et la quantité de terre
donnée par le Sénat comme dédommagement, proportionnellement à
leur grade,
2 pp. in-4
, Washington, 20 janvier 1836
5. L.a.s. de James Grahame, “I directed my publishers in London
to transmit to you a copy of my lately published
History of North
America
”..., Nantes, 11 janvier 1836
6. Une autre lettre du même, “Early in the past summer, I did myself
the honor of addressing you”..., Nouvelle Orléans, 1er décembre 1836
7. Une autre lettre du même, “It is with no little hesitation”...,
3 pp. in-4
,
Nouvelle Orléans, 5 juillet 1846
8. L.a.s. de John Preston, “To so kind a friend I conceived a short
narrative”...,
3 pp. in-4
, Cork, Irelande, 29 août 1836
9. L.a. d’un certain Dr Hall, “Dr Hall’s kindest regards to Mr Lafayette”,
1 p. in-4
, Paris, 5 mai 1836
10. une autre lettre du même, 17 mai 1836
11. L.a.s. de John Church Hamilton (1792-1882), fils du Père Fondateur
Alexander Hamilton, “my friend General Anns will have the honor to
hand to you this letter”...,
2 pp. in-8
, New York, 7 octobre 1836
12. L.a.s. de Lewis G. Cist, “Presuming on the kindness which I am
convinced must pertain to the Character of the son of Lafayette”...,
3 pp. in-4
, Cincinnati, Ohio, 4 juillet 1837
Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was a leading American senator
and an outstanding spokesman with powerful oratory that
made him a key Whig leader.
300 / 500
€
321
KIRKLAND
, John Thornton
Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette
Boston, 18 avril 1835
1 p. in-4
LE GRAND TOUR DES AMÉRICAINS.
LETTRE DE RECOMMANDATION DE L’ANCIEN PRÉSIDENT
DE HARVARD, JOHN THORNTON KIRKLAND, QUI AVAIT
REÇU LAFAYETTE EN 1824
“I beg leave to bring myself to your remembrance by introducing to
you J. P. Miles Esq. a valuer friend and son of our Harvard, a scholar, a
good & intelligent man”...
John Thornton Kirkland (1770-1840) served as President of
Harvard University from 1810 to 1828.
300 / 500
€
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SPARKS
, Jared
Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette ; et
une autre lettre du même (2)
Boston, 12 janvier 1835
1 p. in-4
LETTRE DE JARED SPARKS, AUTEUR DE “LA VIE DE
WASHINGTON” ET FUTUR PRÉSIDENT DE HARVARD
“I have taken the liberty recently to send to you three volumes of the
Writings of Washington
, in continuation of the two volumes sent more
than a year ago to your late lamented Father. These volumes have been
forwarded by the publisher to M. Jules Renouard (...) all the remaining
volumes will be sent to you as fast as they shall be published. I trust the
work will meet with your approbation and particularly the parts relating to
the services in America rendered to the cause of Liberty by your father”...
2. “In a box sent to the care of Mr Thomas W. Storrow of Paris, I have
put a parcel directed to you containing vols I and XII of Washington’s
writings. the work is now complete”...,
1 p. in-4
, Cambridge,
Massachusets, 1
er
septembre 1837
Jared Sparks (1789-1866) served as President of Harvard
University from 1849 to 1853. After extensive researches at home
and in London and Paris, he published the
Life and Writings of
GeorgeWashington
(12 volumes, 1834–1837), his most important
work of which he must be sending here the three first volumes
to Georges Washington Lafayette, and in 1839 he published
separately the
Life of George Washington
. In 1840–1841, Sparks
discovered in the French archives the famous red-line map.
Sparks was one of the American intellectuals who received Alexis
de Tocqueville during his 1831–1832 visit to the United States.
Their extensive conversations and subsequent correspondence
informed
Democracy in America
. He was a keen bookcollector :
his valuable collection of manuscripts and papers went to Harvard
University, his private library and his maps to Cornell University.
800 / 1 200
€