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[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Document signé par William Russel Forster et Morgan Neville Cincinnati, 11 mai 1825 1 p. in-4, papier filigrané “Amies Philada" EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. IL EST ADMIS DANS LA “CINCINNATI MASONIC LODGE". TRÈS BEAU DOCUMENT. LAFAYETTE’S COPY. HE IS ACCEPTED INTO THE “CINCINNATI MASONIC LODGE." OUTSTANDING DOCUMENT Promulgation officilelle signée par le secretaire, transmise à Lafayette .....
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EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. IL EST ADMIS DANS LA “CINCINNATI MASONIC LODGE". TRÈS BEAU DOCUMENT. LAFAYETTE’S COPY. HE IS ACCEPTED INTO THE “CINCINNATI MASONIC LODGE." OUTSTANDING DOCUMENT Promulgation officilelle signée par le secretaire, transmise à Lafayette, d’une Résolution prise par la Cincinnati Masonic Lodge faisant de lui un membre à vie, certifié de la main de William Russell Foster, Secretary pro tem, et signé par Morgan Neville, Worshipful Master. “On the 19th of May, at 10 o’clock in the morning, we arrived on the left bank of the Ohio. The first object that attracted my view on the side, and almost opposite to us, was the handsome city of Cincinnati, majestically covering a large amphitheatre, at the foot of which, the river, upwards of half a mile in width, flows peaceably" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, II, p. 172). The reception afforded Lafayette in Cincinnati was especially lavish, his principle host being the future President, William Henry Harrison (1773-1841 ; 9th President) : “After some moments devoted to official introductions, and reciprocal felicitations, the general returned his thanks to General Harrison, and we proceeded with a numerous train of free masons to the masonic hall, where many lodges had met to receive the nation’s guest, and offer fraternal congratulations upon his arrival in the state of Ohio" (p. 173).
