Manuscripts

Lafayette's Louisiana papers: letters, documents, and prints

Description: Volume contains mssHM 9550-9560; some items are contemporary copies.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1809-1835
Call number: mssLafayette
Creator: Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier (1757-1834)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Assembled in the Library, 1927. The nucleus of the collection came from a dealer in France, with smaller lots purchased from George D. Smith, William K. Bixby, the Anderson Galleries, and other dealers, before 1927.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Marquis de Lafayette. Second mortgage on lands in Louisiana given to Henry L. Waddell

Manuscripts

Paris, France, a contemporary copy; mssHM 9549.

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Lafayette seven autograph letters, five additional A.L.S., including The Madame, Their Son and Daughter

Manuscripts

Volume contains prints and typewritten transcriptions; mssHM 21610-21622.

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Marquis de Lafayette collection

Manuscripts

A collection of 78 items from 1779 to 1835; it contains miscellaneous correspondence and papers, in French and English, dealing with Lafayette's family, property, military and political career, particularly his imprisonment by the Austrians and his visit to the United States in 1824 to 1825. Included are individual letters dealing with his command in the American Revolution and his role in the French Revolution. The collection holds 37 letters written by Lafayette; other correspondents include, among others, Erick Bollman; Adrienne de Noailles, Marquise de Lafayette; Georges Washington Lafayette; and Auguste Adolphe Frederick de Hennings.

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Documents and correspondence

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A letter from Lafayette

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260546

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Lafayette and slavery : from his letters to Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharp

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Lafayette's Louisiana papers: letters, documents, and prints

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