[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
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“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).
