[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Lettre autographe signée de Mary Austin Holley au marquis de Lafayette Lexingon, Kentucky, 17 mai 1825 3 pp. in-4
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REMARQUABLE LETTRE DE L’UNE DES PREMIÈRES FEMMES ÉCRIVAINS DES ÉTATS-UNIS ; ELLE ÉTAIT COUSINE DE STEPHEN J. AUSTIN : “THE FATHER OF TEXAS". THE TEXAS AND LAFAYETTE : “MY BOAST, THAT I HAVE SEEN, AND SPOKE, TO LAFAYETTE" “It is painful to think that I have seen you but in a pageant, with no opportunity for social and friendly inter-course, the inter-change of mind. But it is a happiness, an honour, and shall ever be" A letter by an important pioneering writer of the American West : Mary Holley (17841846), née Austin, was wife of the Rev Austin Holley, President of Transylvania University, and had moved from the liberal milieu of Boston (to which she refers in this letter) to Lexington in 1818, later moving to New Orleans. She was a friend and correspondent of her cousin Stephen J. Austin, the “Father of Texas", and was the author of the classic account, Texas : Observations, Historical, Geographical, and Descriptive (1833 ; or Texas, 1836). Holley’s work has recently been featured by Nina Baym in her study Women American Writers of the American West, 1833-1927, where her Texas is the earliest work under discussion. RÉFÉRENCE : les papiers de Marie Austin Holley sont conservés au Briscoe Center for American History. University of Austin Texas
