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LAFAYETTE, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de (1757-1834). Autograph letter signed ("Lafayette") to Mr. Bradford, La Grange, 7 November 1828. 1 page, 8v0, small chip lower left corner not affecting text.
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LAFAYETTE, Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de (1757-1834). Autograph letter signed ("Lafayette") to Mr. Bradford, La Grange, 7 November 1828. 1 page, 8v0, small chip lower left corner not affecting text.
"AMERICAN TUNES, WASHINGTON'S MARCH AND YANKEE DOODLE"
A fine Lafayette letter, touching on his "American dispatches," Jared Sparks, the 1828 presidential election, and the spread of pro-American sentiment in Europe. "I am much obliged to you for the care you have taken of my letters," he tells Bradford, "and hope, before long, to offer my thanks in person as I contemplate going to town Saturday so as to be in time to deliver into your hands at Mr. Low's house my American dispatches. I have also to confer with him, and you, respecting several copies in French and English of which Mr Sparks has, no doubt, already spoken to Mr Low. I will make a list of the American ladies now in Paris to call upon them in the short stay, two days, I think, which I intend to remain in France, and should you hear of any of our friends intending a kind visit to us be pleased to inform them of my plan that I may be sure now to take the opportunity to welcome them at La Grange... I see in the French papers that the return of [the] N. Y. elections has not been favourable to the Adams ticket..." In a postscript he reports "good news from Grenoble. When George [his son] was last in that city he had a most kind welcome and was particularly gratified by the attention. His friends had to play American Tunes, Washington's March and Yankee Doodle."
"AMERICAN TUNES, WASHINGTON'S MARCH AND YANKEE DOODLE"
A fine Lafayette letter, touching on his "American dispatches," Jared Sparks, the 1828 presidential election, and the spread of pro-American sentiment in Europe. "I am much obliged to you for the care you have taken of my letters," he tells Bradford, "and hope, before long, to offer my thanks in person as I contemplate going to town Saturday so as to be in time to deliver into your hands at Mr. Low's house my American dispatches. I have also to confer with him, and you, respecting several copies in French and English of which Mr Sparks has, no doubt, already spoken to Mr Low. I will make a list of the American ladies now in Paris to call upon them in the short stay, two days, I think, which I intend to remain in France, and should you hear of any of our friends intending a kind visit to us be pleased to inform them of my plan that I may be sure now to take the opportunity to welcome them at La Grange... I see in the French papers that the return of [the] N. Y. elections has not been favourable to the Adams ticket..." In a postscript he reports "good news from Grenoble. When George [his son] was last in that city he had a most kind welcome and was particularly gratified by the attention. His friends had to play American Tunes, Washington's March and Yankee Doodle."