Item 23: Letter from Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette to Unknown [in French], no date
Item — Box: 4, Folder: 23
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- Created: no date
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Letter
Condition Note:
Okay. A lot of warping.
Measurements:
7 in. x 2 ⅝ in.
Description:
The letter is authored on an unknown date, by French aristocrat, freemason and military officer in the American Revolutionary War, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette to an unknown recipient. In the letter, Gilbert du Mortier is writing to the recipient to express his interest in their visiting him. He tells them that their neighbors are currently in Paris, which he hopes will draw the recipient into visiting him. He then goes on to thank the recipient for speaking of his family with him, and tells him that he would wish to receive them during a future journey.
Transcription:
Vos voisins sont actuellement à Paris: j’espere que le sera pour vous un mouif(?) de plus d’y venir: vous pal(?) lui pour la grange des grands jours d’été : mais leux du printims seraiens préféralles, et surtout préféri par nous comme crair plus prochains. J'espère que vous voudri bien nous en accorder quelques un don nous profiterons avec une grande satisfaction: je vous remerie de la Bonté que vous avri de la parler de moi a vos enfan[t]s en d’entretini(?) leur bon souvenir a mon le gard. je desire bein qui ils se plasicar dan mon servait champim(?) ou j'ai eu demicremene le plaisir de recevoir le heure(?) a digne reputentaurde(?) mon ami Charles Fox; Lady Holland(?), et m[onsieur](?) allen(?) y sont vous avec lui; M[onsieur]. Brougham n’a pas pour chez(?)
Translation attempt: Your neighbors are currently in Paris: I hope it will be for you —(?) to come here: you by(?) him for the barn of the great summer days; but those of the spring would be preferred, and especially prefered by us as sooner. I hope that you will grant us some gift we will enjoy with satisfaction. I will thank you for the kindness that you have taken in speaking about me to your children, and for keeping my fond memories [of them] gaurded. I desire that they [be placed in name] —(?) —(?) or where I have the pleasure of receiving the happy and worthy —(?) My friend Charles Fox, Lady Holland, and Mr. Allen, [are] you there with him? M. Brougham is not home.
Translation attempt: Your neighbors are currently in Paris: I hope it will be for you —(?) to come here: you by(?) him for the barn of the great summer days; but those of the spring would be preferred, and especially prefered by us as sooner. I hope that you will grant us some gift we will enjoy with satisfaction. I will thank you for the kindness that you have taken in speaking about me to your children, and for keeping my fond memories [of them] gaurded. I desire that they [be placed in name] —(?) —(?) or where I have the pleasure of receiving the happy and worthy —(?) My friend Charles Fox, Lady Holland, and Mr. Allen, [are] you there with him? M. Brougham is not home.
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