Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Dates
- Existence: 1757-09-06 - 1834-05-20
Biography
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834), French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War.
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
James Fenimore Cooper Collection
Letter : La Grange, to Guglielmo Pepe, 1832 Oct 20
ALS with address.
In French.
Letter : La Grange, to Peter Stephen du Ponceau, 1831 Jul 2
ALS in French concerning Lafayette's "Florida lands." With a sheet containing a typed transcript of the letter and an English translation.
Removed from: Answer to Enquiries Relative to Middle Florida by David B. Macomb (Tallahassee, 1827).
Letter : La Grange, to Reverend Ralph Randolph Gurley, Washington City, 1828 Nov 29
ALS to "Reverend R. R. Gurley, Secretary to the Colonisation Society."
Letter : Montpellier, to an unidentified correspondent, 1824 Nov 16
ALS to "My dear Sir."
Letter : Paris, to Antoine-Augustus Renouard, 1823 Aug 15
ALS, with address, listing books to sell. Accompanied by typed transcript and typed translation.
In French.
Letter : Paris, to Peter Augustus Jay, 1831 Mar 25
ALS, with address, introducing Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont.
Letter : Paris, to Philip Hone, 1826 Mar 14
ALS, with address, to the Mayor of New York City.
Letter : to James Fenimore Cooper, [182-?]
ALS concerning a portrait of Lafayette, issues relating to newspaper printers, and Belgium.
With typed transcript.
Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection
The Liebert Autograph Collection contains chiefly British (as well as other European and American) historical and literary manuscripts and autographs, including items by James Boswell, Jr., Sir Joseph Banks, Marie Corelli, Eugene V. Debs, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Henry Huxley, Samuel Johnson, Ouida, and Alfred Tennyson. The Liebert Correspondence consists of letters written to Liebert by Ian Fleming, Beverly Nichols, John Cowper Powys, and Thornton Wilder.
Pierpont Family Papers
Rochambeau Papers and Rochambeau Family Cartographic Archive
The Rochambeau Papers and Rochambeau Family Cartographic Archive is divided into two parts, the Rochambeau Papers, and the Cartographic Archive.
Tarleton family papers
Correspondence, autograph album, genealogical notes, photographs and miscellaneous papers of the Tarleton and Lightfoot families of Alabama. The major figures represented in the collection are Robert Tarleton, his wife Sarah Bernard Lightfoot Tarleton, and Sarah Bee Ross Lightfoot. Most letters were written by Robert Tarleton and date from the Civil War period. The papers also contain an 1834 letter from Marquis de Lafayette to the President of the French Chamber of Peers.
Anna and Marion Tompson collection
Financial and legal papers, advertising brochures for a school at Portsmouth (1801-1808) and correspondence of the Rollins and Hooker families. Also in the collection is a letter of introduction (1831) from the Marquis de Lafayette. Most of the financial and legal papers concern transactions for land in Bretton Woods, Dummer and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, chiefly relating to the Haven family. One of the documents is an original proprietor's grant (1772) for Bretton Woods.
John Trumbull papers
The papers consist of correspondence, legal and financial records, and writings which document the artistic career, business ventures, and personal life of John Trumbull. The papers also include correspondence, diaries, and financial and legal records of other Trumbull family members and of related Huntington, Lanman, Silliman, and Wadsworth family members. Files of Theodore Sizer containing his research material and writings on John Trumbull are also in the papers.