PIERRE BERGE - Jean Patou couturier, bibliophile et collectionneur : Manuscrits : Lafayette et l’Amérique. VENDREDI 22 MAI 2015, 15h30. Drouot-Richelieu - Salle 2, Paris.

Vendredi 22 mai 2015

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WILBERFORCE, William Lettre signée au général Lafayette Highwood Hill, Middlesex, 28 mars 1831

Estimation : 500 / 800
Adjudication : Invendu
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ABOLITION DE L’ESCLAVAGE. WILBERFORCE ENVOIE SON FILS RENDRE VISITE À LAFAYETTE, L’UN DES GRANDS ABOLITIONNISTES EUROPÉENS 2 pages 1/4 in-8, à l’encre brune “My oldest son (...) will halt a few days in Paris (...) He well knows the deep interest you have taken in the cause of the long oppressed and cruelly treated Africans ; and I hope that from your instruction he will be able to inform me that some effect is following from that early promise of mercy which was made to those poor Outcasts"
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