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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
[Toast 7] Document autographe
Norfolk, [22 octobre 1824]
4 lignes
VISITE À NORFOLK. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE.
VISIT TO NORFOLK. LAFAYETTE’S COPY
“Norfolk and may the former sufferings be more and more rewarded
by the prosperity which her happy situation warrants her friends to
anticipate”
“Of all cities we had visited, Norfolk had the least agreeable
aspect ; the houses are generally badly built, and the streets
narrow and crooked. On account of the circumjacent marshes,
the air is unhealthy, and diseases common during autumn. Its
population does not exceed 4000 souls (…) A great number of
French families, emigrants from St. Domingo reside at Norfolk”
(Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, I, p. 194)
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LAFAYETTE
, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de].
Lettre autographe signée par Robert Maye
Richmond, 28 octobre 1824
2 pp. in-4, avec une perte de texte importante dans la partie gauche
de la lettre
“THE NAME LAFAYETTE IS DEEPLY ENGRAVED IN THE
HEARTS OF HIS ADOPTED COUNTRYMEN” ; LAFAYETTE
APPELLE PAR LEUR NOM SES ANCIENS SOLDATS
“the name Lafayette is deeply engraved in the hearts of his adopted
Countrymen, and the grateful impression will be transmitted from
generation to generation, while the emblems of Union & Liberty
proclaim the sovereignty of the people in this happy Land”
Robert Maye was
Corresponding Secretary
of the
Richmond
Union Debating Society
. Lafayette reached Richmond on 26
October, staying there for the rest of the month :
“in spite of the inconvenience of a profuse rain, which detained us
for some hours on board the boat, the crowd had pushed forward
to meet us at Osborn where we were land. The solemn entry could
not take place till the next morning. Forty Revolutionary soldiers who
had served under him in Virginia, were introduced to him immediately
after his arrival. It was with great feeling that they again beheld their
old general, and he, full of emotion, astonished them by remembering
and calling by name those who most particularly shared his toils and
dangers” (Levasseur,
Lafayette in America
, I, p. 196).
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