[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de John H. Farnham Cincinnati, 20 mai 1825 1 p. in-4, papier filigrané “JP"
Estimation :
400 / 600
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
“TO SOLICIT YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF A CLOAK". UN MANTEAU EST OFFERT À LAFAYETTE DANS L’INDIANA PAR LE FUTUR FONDATEUR DE L’INDIANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lettre écrite au nom du Gouverneur et des citoyens de l’Indiana : “to solicit your acceptance of a Cloak in lieu of the one lost during your visit to the State at Jeffersonville", APOSTILLE AUTOGRAPHE DE LAFAYETTE “answered verbally" A notice of the writer is given in Goodspeed’s History of Washington County (1884) ; he was to found the Indiana Historical Society in 1830 : “Another noteworthy citizen was John H. Farnham. With the exception of Judge Parke’s, it was the largest library in Salem. He graduated at Harvard University in the same class with Edward Everett. He was not a popular man. In the first place he was a Yankee, and a Boston Yankee at that. He spent his winters at Indianapolis, and there turned an honest penny by writing the speeches of some of the bucolic members of the Legislature, and it is said on good authority that he wrote the welcome to Lafayette at Jeffersonville, which was delivered by his exellency, Gov. James Brown Ray".
