[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre signée par Daniel Jackson, Francis Green et Robert Williams Boston, 20 juin 1825 3 pp. in-4, filigrané “S&A Butler US"
Estimation :
800 / 1200
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. TROIS OFFICIERS VÉTÉRANS DU MASSACHUSETTS RÉCLAMENT UNE PENSION ET S’ADRESSENT AU “ONLY SURVIVING GENERAL OF THE REVOLUTION ARMY". JOINT : UN RARE EXEMPLAIRE DE LEUR PÉTITION IMPRIMÉE Ces trois officiers vétérans ont formé un Committee (“the Surviving Revolutionary Officers") qui prépare “a petition to Congress, for Compensation, in consequence of losses they sustain’d, by the manner in which they were paid during the War, and the depreciated value of the Certificates they receiv’d, in final settlement of their accounts (...) You are now Sir, the only surviving General of the Revolutionary army, and no man living, is better acquainted with the toils and dangers, which were suffer’d during that contest. Few, very few, of your associates are now alive ; and it is the lot of those few, in the decline of their lives, to be in indigence". AVEC UNE APOSTILLE AUTOGRAPHE DE LAFAYETTE “Answer’d to be kept" JOINT : un rare exemplaire de leur pétition imprimée
