[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de Jonathan Russel Mendon, Massachusetts, 18 août 1825 2 pp. in-4
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BELLE LETTRE DE JONATHAN RUSSEL À LAFAYETTE. RUSSEL FUT L’UN DES NÉGOCIATEURS DU TRAITÉ DE GAND QUI MIT FIN À LA GUERRE DE 1812. IL REGRETTE DE NE PAS VOIR LAFAYETTE CHEZ LUI. IL LUI PARLE DE SIMON BOLIVAR ET AJOUTE, D’UNE BELLE FORMULE : “WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN YOUR FRIEND" “I have, until very recently flattered my self with the hope that you would make the contemplated visit to Rhode Island (...) a regret in which vanity and ostentation has no concern"... il regrette “not to pay to the benefactor of our country and of the human race the full tribute of our heartfull gratitude and veneration. We have always been your friend" puis il parle de Bolivar et de la lettre de Lafayette qu’il lui a adressée Jonathan Russell (1771-1832), diplomat, born in Providence, was the son of Jonathan and Abigail Russell. His father was descended from John Russell, a 1640 resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts. He graduated from Rhode Island College in 1791. He studied law, but did not practice. He entered into European trade with his partner Otis Ammidon. His diplomatic career began when President James Madison appointed him chargé d’affaires in Paris in 1810. The next year he was given the same position in London. From 1814 to 1818 he was United States minister to Sweden and Norway. He was one of the negotiators of the Treaty of Ghent, with John Quincy Adams, James A. Bayard, Henry Clay, and Albert Gallatin. In 1818 he was recalled from Sweden by James Monroe, and the next year he settled in Mendon, Massachusetts. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for one term in 1820. He was then elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives for the Seventeenth Congress (1821-1823). During his term he was also the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. RÉFÉRENCE : les archives de Jonathan Russel sont conservées à Brown Universit, library.brown.edu/riamco/.../US-RPB-msrussell.pdf
