BIDDLE, Nicholas Lettre autographe signée au marquis de Lafayette Philadelphie, 12 juin 1834 1 p. in-4, suscription “Genl Lafayette La Grang"
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EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE (MORT LE 20 MAI 1834). LETTRE ÉCRITE PAR NICHOLAS BIDDLE, GRAND FINANCIER ET PRÉSIDENT DE LA “SECOND BANK OF THE UNITED STATES". IL DEMANDE AU GÉNÉRAL DE RECEVOIR L’ANCIEN MAIRE DE PHILADELPHIE, BENJAMIN W. RICHARDS “I take the liberty of presenting to you my friend Benjamin W. Richards Esq. a gentleman of education, talents, great respectability and universally esteemed in our community of which his election as Mayor of the City is at once the proof of the reward. He proposed to visit France (...) and naturally desires to see the individual the most interesting in France to all Americans"... Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844), a child prodigy and a member of a proeminent and wealthy pennsylvanian family, was an American financier who served as the second and last president of the Second Bank of the United States (chartered 1816-1836). He spent many years in Europe, attended the coronation of Napoleon in 1804 as a secretary of the US minister to France, served as a secretary of James Monroe, audited the “Louisiana Purchase" by the United States. He prepared western explorers Lewis and Clark’s report for publication of their exploratory expedition. Benjamin Wood Richards (1797-1851) was Mayor of Philadelphia between 1829 and 1832. The Biddle family paper are presently at The University of Delaware. RÉFÉRENCE : http ://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/findaids/biddle.htm
