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From: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Gini

To: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]

Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 1:44 PM

Subject: Fw: Marquis de Lafayette

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

Gini Patterson

 

-----Original Message-----
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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