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- Creator
- Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
- Call number
- MssCol 4490
- Physical description
- .1 linear feet (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
- Marquis de Lafayette letters, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Location
- MssCol 4490
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Letters from the Marquis de Lafayette to various parties written between 1791 and 1834. Letters to Colonel Timothy Pickering and Maryland governor Thomas Sim Lee pertain to military matters; an 1834 letter to Joseph Hume expresses concern for Polish refugees displaced by Prussian authorities. Other letters relate to social engagements and personal affairs; recipients include Hugues-Bernard Maret, 1st Duc de Bassano, and Peter Stephen Du Ponceau. In English and French
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Custodial history
Some material was originally received as part of the Ford and Thomas Addis Emmet collections.
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Names
- Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 (recipient)
- Hume, Joseph, 1777-1855 (recipient)
- Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
- Lee, Thomas Sim, 1745-1819 (recipient)
- Maret, Hugues-Bernard, duc de Bassano, 1763-1839 (recipient)
- Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829 (recipient)
- Emmet collection
- Ford collection
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Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328