[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Lettre signée au nom des citoyens du comté de Shelby, Shelbyville, Kentucky, 7 mai 1825 3 pp. in-4
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Invendu
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EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE. INVITATION À DÎNER DANS UNE TAVERNE DU KENTUCKY Invitation de Lafayette à un dîner public à la Taverne de R. Brenham à Shelbyville : “Our Venerable Sires, who were your Compatriots and fellow Soldiers, who participated with you in the toils and dangers and glorious triumphs of the Revolution which resulted in our National Independence, greet you... Their Children, General, have received from their lips the Story of your illustrious deeds" avec la signature du Chairman of the Comitee, B.W. Ballard, et une liste de noms, avec une APOSTILLE AUTOGRAPHE DE LAFAYETTE : “adresse de Shelbyville - Kentucky" Lafayette stayed at Shelbyville, described by Levasseur as “a large and flourishing village, situated in the midst of a most fertile and diversified country", on the night of 12 May 1825, while on his way to Cincinnati and soon after the shipwreck of his boat, the Mechanic, in the Ohio river on May 8. (Lafayette in America, II, p. 166).
