201 / 239
200
326
COLDEN
, David C.
Lettre autographe signée au marquis de Lafayette ; et la copie
d’une autre lettre (2)
New York, 17 février 1834
2 pp. in-4
DAVID C. COLDEN, QUI DONNA SON NOM AU LAC COLDEN,
ANNONCE À LAFAYETTE LA MORT DE SON PÈRE, ANCIEN
MAIRE DE NEW YORK
Il lui annonce lamort de son beau-père, et celle de son père, Cadwallader
D. Colden, 54
e
maire de New York “who expired on Friday the 7
th
after
struggling for many months with a painful disease (hyperothorax)”
2.
3 pp. in-4.
Copie d’une lettre d’un dénommé Matthew Cacey,
Philadelphie, 18 février 1834
100 / 150
€
327
BIDDLE
, Nicholas
Lettre autographe signée au marquis de Lafayette
Philadelphie, 12 juin 1834
1 p. in-4, suscription “Genl Lafayette La Grang”
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE (MORT LE 20 MAI 1834).
LETTRE ÉCRITE PAR NICHOLAS BIDDLE, GRAND
FINANCIER ET PRÉSIDENT DE LA “SECOND BANK OF
THE UNITED STATES”. IL DEMANDE AU GÉNÉRAL DE
RECEVOIR L’ANCIEN MAIRE DE PHILADELPHIE, BENJAMIN
W. RICHARDS
“I take the liberty of presenting to you my friend Benjamin W. Richards
Esq. a gentleman of education, talents, great respectability and
universally esteemed in our community of which his election as
Mayor of the City is at once the proof of the reward. He proposed to
visit France (...) and naturally desires to see the individual the most
interesting in France to all Americans”...
Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844), a child prodigy and a member
of a proeminent and wealthy pennsylvanian family, was
an American financier who served as the second and last
president of the Second Bank of the United States (chartered
1816–1836). He spent many years in Europe, attended the
coronation of Napoleon in 1804 as a secretary of the US
minister to France, served as a secretary of James Monroe,
audited the “Louisiana Purchase” by the United States. He
prepared western explorers Lewis and Clark’s report for
publication of their exploratory expedition. Benjamin Wood
Richards (1797-1851) was Mayor of Philadelphia between
1829 and 1832. The Biddle family paper are presently at The
University of Delaware.
RÉFÉRENCE : http :/
/www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/biddle.htm500 / 800
€
328
CLARKE
, Aaron, maire de New York
Lettre signée à Georges Washington Lafayette ; et d’autres
lettres autographes signées adressées au même (8)
New York, 26 février 1838
1 p. in-4
ENSEMBLE DE LETTRES ADRESSÉES À GEORGES
WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE POUR LES ANNÉES 1838 ET
1848
“It is not necessary that I should make any exertion to convince you
how greatly the people of America” (...) il lui demande un masque de
Lafayette sachant qu’il peut en obtenir un moulage “on Application to
M. Michelo rue Guénégaud n° 18. The grand object is to form from the
Masque above mentioned correct busts of the General”...
2. L.a.s. de R. Ryker, “I await myself of the visit of my most particular
friend Judge [John] Woodward (...) I introduce to you one of ourmost
worthly and distinguished citizens. He holds at present the Office of
Consul General of Texas”...,
2 pp. in-4
, New York, 25 juin 1838
3. L.a.s. de J. G. Flügel (1788-1855), “A request having been made
by of our first manufactors”..., il demande un autographe du Général
de Lafayette “as a luminar of the first magnitude in my collection of
autographs”,
6 pp. in-4
, Leipzig, 15 février 1841. On joint une copie
d’une lettre adressée par le consul à Berlin, H. Wheaton,
1 p. in-4
, 10
juillet 1841, et uen copie d’une lettre de Flügel 15 février 1841 ; et une
autre lettre de Flügel à propos de son dictionnaire,
4 pp. in-4
, Leipsig,
15 février 1842 (6)
7. Copie d’une lettre, Otis Crandle,
4 pp. in-folio
, Milton, 20 février
1843. À propos de plaintes financières
8. L.a.s. de Thoma Warner, “I hope to be excused in presenting”...,
5 pp. in-4
, Paris, 28 août 1848. Demande de service
6. L.a.s. de A. A. Halsey, “On returning to my lodging yesterday”...,
Paris, mardi matin, [vers 1840]
7. L.a.s. de Mme B. B. Glaser, “the western infants first taught lesson
the venerated names of Washington and Lafayette”..., Hambourg,
12 juin 1842,
bordure de la lettre décchirée
Johann Gottfried Flügel (1788-1855) emigrated to the U. S.
where he made a study of the English language, and returning
to Germany in 1819. In 1838 he became American consul,
and subsequently representative and correspondent of the
Smithsonian Institution
and several other leading American
institutions. He published his
Vollständige englisch-deutsche
und deutsch-englische Wörterbuch
in 1830.
200 / 300
€
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