LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Document signé par William Winston Seaton et contresigné par Eramus J. Middleton Washington, 5 septembre 1825 2 pp. in-folio
Estimation :
2500 / 3500
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. LA VILLE DE WASHINGTON SALUE LE DÉPART DE LAFAYETTE LE CÉRÉMONIAL DES ADIEUX : Promulgation officielle transmise à Lafayette de la décision prise par le “Board of Aldermen" présidé par Seaton et le “Board of Common concils" ; ils vont, précédés par le maire de Washington, “wait upon General Lafayette on Wednesday next at 12 O’Clock, at the Mansion of the President to pay their respects to him previously to his departure from the United States". Seaton exprime les “deep regret which they, in common with the American Peoples feel at his departures from its shores... and of their fervent wish that he may long live to enjoy the gratitude and benedictions of every friend of national liberty in every Nation under Heaven" William Winston Seaton (1785-1866) was an American journalist. He served on the Washington Board of Alderman from 1819 to 1831, and was elected Mayor of Washington in 1840. During his 10 years as mayor, Seaton was instrumental in the development of the city’s public education system and in numerous civic improvements, including telegraph and gas lines as well as the construction of the first waterworks
