SPARKS, Jared Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette ; et une autre lettre du même (2) Boston, 12 janvier 1835 1 p. in-4
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LETTRE DE JARED SPARKS, AUTEUR DE “LA VIE DE WASHINGTON" ET FUTUR PRÉSIDENT DE HARVARD “I have taken the liberty recently to send to you three volumes of the Writings of Washington, in continuation of the two volumes sent more than a year ago to your late lamented Father. These volumes have been forwarded by the publisher to M. Jules Renouard (...) all the remaining volumes will be sent to you as fast as they shall be published. I trust the work will meet with your approbation and particularly the parts relating to the services in America rendered to the cause of Liberty by your father"... 2. “In a box sent to the care of Mr Thomas W. Storrow of Paris, I have put a parcel directed to you containing vols I and XII of Washington’s writings. the work is now complete"..., 1 p. in-4, Cambridge, Massachusets, 1er septembre 1837 Jared Sparks (1789-1866) served as President of Harvard University from 1849 to 1853. After extensive researches at home and in London and Paris, he published the Life and Writings of George Washington (12 volumes, 1834-1837), his most important work of which he must be sending here the three first volumes to Georges Washington Lafayette, and in 1839 he published separately the Life of George Washington. In 1840-1841, Sparks discovered in the French archives the famous red-line map. Sparks was one of the American intellectuals who received Alexis de Tocqueville during his 1831-1832 visit to the United States. Their extensive conversations and subsequent correspondence informed Democracy in America. He was a keen bookcollector : his valuable collection of manuscripts and papers went to Harvard University, his private library and his maps to Cornell University.
