[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de Joseph Reed, Secretary of University of Pennsylvania Philadelphie, 24 juillet 1825 2 pp. in-4
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LA FIN DU FAREWELL TOUR. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. ÉCHOS DE REMARQUABLES CONVERSATIONS SUR LE SYSTÈME PÉNITENCIAIRE AMÉRICAIN, QUI ANNONCENT TOCQUEVILLE “I have reflected after and seriously on the subject of the very short conversation, I had the pleasure of having with you at the Mayor’s table on Friday last. I allude to the penitentiary system, which you seemed to think, and I fear truly, is in a degree at least to be abandoned here, to what extent a change is contemplated by the plan of the new penitentiary, which you visited, I am not precisely informed (...) As you have had frequent opportunities, at different periods of your eventful life, to observe the effects on the body as well as the intellect of the prisoner (...) I feel the greater confidence in making the request from the decided and animated manner in which you expressed those sentiments and the interest you took in the subject" Joseph Reed demande à Lafayette de lui exprimer par un memorandum son point de vue sur le système pénitentiaire américain.
