[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de Moses Bissel Canandaigua, 7 juin 1825 1 p. in-4, marges irrégulières
Estimation :
5000 / 7000
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. REMARQUABLE LETTRE D’UN VÉTÉRAN DE BUNKER HILL. I HAVE “NOTHING TO BESTOW AS I DO NOT RECEIVE A PENTION AND AM ABOVE 75 YEARS OF AGE AND WAS IN SIGHT OF BUNKER HILL BATTLE". LAFAYETTE’S COPY. LETTER OF A BUNKER HILL VETERAN Moses Bissell, un vétéran de Bunker Hill, écrit à Lafayette : “Dear General I have nothing Else to offer But my Prayers and Best wishes and Regards for your Health and Prosperity for your Self and family I am so very Poor and needy I have nothing Else to Bestow as I do not Receive a Pention and am above 75 years of age and was in Sight of Bunker Hill Battle where I am informed You mean to be on the 17th of this Being the 50th anniversary Since that Great and Glorious Event and the first Prelude of our National Glory" The author of this particularly touching letter is listed among those who served in the Revolution in the Record of Service of Connecticut Men (1889). It is not hard to imagine that it was just such letters as this that helped persuade Lafayette to give absolute priority to attendance at the Bunker Hill ceremony.
