[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée par Elijah Paine Montpellier, Vermont, 28 juin 1825 3 pp. in-4, papier filigrané “Owen & Hurlbut"
Estimation :
400 / 600
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. LETTRE D’HOMMAGE ÉCRITE PAR L’ANCIEN SÉNATEUR DU VERMONT ET COMBATTANT DE LA GUERRE D’INDÉPENDANCE “The citizens of Montpellier & the vicinity have assembled to bid you welcome to this recently created Village [and congratulating you] on having so nearly completed the tour of the United States (...) When you left this Country after the war of the Revolution, the State of Vermont had but just begun to have a name. At that time almost the whole State was a wilderness. Yet we are proud of some of the parts performed in that war by the arms of Vermont... The State of Vermont cannot show to you large towns & cities ; but it can show to you what is perhaps of as much consequence. It can show to you a sober, substantial, intelligent & well informed yeomanry" Montpelier (“this recently created Village") is of course now the state’s capital. Elijah Paine (1757-1842) was a United States Senator from Vermont, serving as a Federalist (1795-1801), and thereafter a long-serving United States federal judge. Born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, Paine attended the public schools. He served in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War (1776-1777), and graduated from Harvard College in 1781. His son, Charles Paine, was Governor of Vermont (1841-1843).
