Gini
I remember the message so it appeared. You probably have your configuration to MuseumL set so that you do not get postings from yourself.  If you got no response, the answer from listers was in part "we don't have any correspondence from Lafayette" and the other answer is, at least from me, "I don't appraise."

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I sent this message several weeks ago, but didn't even see it published.  What have I done wrong? 
Gini Patterson

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From: Gini <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:04 AM
Subject: Marquis de Lafayette


At the Mount Clare Museum House ("Maryland's first Museum House"), the home of Charles Carroll the Barrister & his wife Margaret Tilghman Carroll, we have a letter from Lafayette written in 1827 to Baltimoreans after his triumphal tour of the United States. It's lengthy and fascinating, detailing the circumstances in Europe at that time.

I particularly like the following: "I am happy to think it would be difficult to explain to an American ear altho an American mind and heart has been lately the object of it. Adieu, my dear Howard [Col. John Eager Howard], remember me to all about you.  And believe me forever
    Your affectionate brother soldier
    Lafayette"

We are curious - are there many other letters surviving from Lafayette?  What is its worth?   For how much should we insure it?  I thought you experts out there might be able to help us.

Gini Patterson
Mount Clare House Chairman
Carroll Park,  Baltimore, MD
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