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| No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501 | Franklin, Benjamin | Franklin and Lafayette’s List of Prints to Illustrate … | ≈1779-05-01 | AD (draft): Library of Congress 1. The Burning of Charleston (Date) A fine Town by the Waterside,... | |
| 502 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [c. 26 May 1779] | 1779-05-26 | AL : American Philosophical Society I have just now Receiv’d a letter from the President of... |
| 503 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, 19 May 1779 | 1779-05-19 | ALS : American Philosophical Society Inclos’d I have the honor to Send you a letter from Mons. de... |
| 504 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Adams, John | To John Adams from the Marquis de Lafayette, 9 April … | 1779-04-09 | I beg leave of applying to you in an instance where I am much Concern’d. The Case I shall lay... |
| 505 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [c. 31 March 1779] | 1779-03-31 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I went yesterday to pay My Respects to your Excellency, and... |
| 506 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [20 March 1779] | 1779-03-20 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I am just Coming from Versailles where I went à hunting with... |
| 507 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [8 March 1779] | 1779-03-08 | ALS : Dartmouth College Library I Am very Sorry it was not in My power to wait on Your excellency... |
| 508 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from the Marquis de Lafayette, [7 … | 1779-03-07 | ALS : S. Howard Goldman, Weston, Connecticut (1989) Inclos’d I have the honor to send a letter... |
| 509 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from Lafayette, [21 February 1779] | 1779-02-21 | AL : American Philosophical Society I had promis’d myself, my good friend, that I would have the... |
| 510 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Franklin, Benjamin | To Benjamin Franklin from the Marquis de Lafayette … | ≈1779-02-13 | ALS : American Philosophical Society I hope my Letter will Reach your excellency soon enough as... |
| 511 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 11 … | 1779-01-11 | The Sails are just going to be hoisted, My dear General, and I have But the time of taking my... |
| 512 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 5–10 … | ≈1779-01-05 | in my dificult situation, at Such a distance from you, I am oblig’d to take a determination by... |
| 513 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Hamilton, Alexander | To Alexander Hamilton from Marquis de Lafayette, [8 … | 1779-01-08 | Mons. Nevile allant en france, mon cher hamilton, j’espere que vous ne Negligeres pas cette... |
| 514 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 7 … | 1779-01-07 | This letter will be delivered to your excellency by Mister Nevill my aid de Camp whom I beg you... |
| 515 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 30 … | 1778-10-30 | Letter not found: from Maj. Gen. Lafayette, c.30 Oct. 1778. GW wrote Vice Admiral d’Estaing on 31... |
| 516 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 24 … | 1778-10-24 | You will be surpris’d to hear that I am yet in this city, and that I Could never get out till... |
| 517 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Adams, Abigail | Lafayette to Abigail Adams, 29 September 1778 | 1778-09-29 | Le Marquis de lafayette Most Respectful Compliments Wait on Mrs. Adams and is highly sensible of... |
| 518 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 28 … | 1778-09-28 | The News I have got from france, the Reflexions I have made by myself, and these which have been... |
| 519 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 24 … | 1778-09-24 | I am going to Consult your excellency upon a point in which I not only want your leave and... |
| 520 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 21 … | 1778-09-21 | I am to aknowledge the reception of your late favor —your excellency’s Sentiments were already... |
| 521 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 3 … | 1778-09-03 | I Can’t let Mons. de la Neuville go to headquarters without Recalling to Your Excellency’s memory... |
| 522 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Hamilton, Alexander | To Alexander Hamilton from Marquis de Lafayette, 1 … | 1778-09-01 | Ne suis je pas bien malheureux, cher colonel, on me pousse pour aller à boston, on me chasse de... |
| 523 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 1 … | 1778-09-01 | that there has been an action fought where I could have been and where I was not, is a thing... |
| 524 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette … | ≈1778-08-25 | I had expected for answering to your first letter that Some thing interesting would have happened... |
| 525 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Hamilton, Alexander | To Alexander Hamilton from Marquis de Lafayette, 26 … | 1778-08-26 | J’ai recu votre lettre, cher colonel, et j’y aurois repondu plutôt si l’absence de la flotte ne... |
| 526 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 6 … | 1778-08-06 | I have receiv’d your Excellency’s favor by general greene, and have been much pleas’d with the... |
| 527 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 28 … | 1778-07-28 | I take the opportunity of an express going from General Sullivan to your Excellency for to let... |
| 528 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 25 … | 1778-07-25 | inclos’d I have the honor to send you a letter from General Sullivan which I took the liberty to... |
| 529 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 26 … | 1778-06-26 | I have Receiv’d your orders for marching as fast as I Could and I have march’d without waiting... |
| 530 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 26 … | 1778-06-26 | I hope you have receiv’d my letter from Cramberry where I aquaint you that I am going to hice... |
| 531 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 26 … | 1778-06-26 | I have Receiv’d your excellency’s favor notifying your arrival at cramberry and am glad to have... |
| 532 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 26 … | 1778-06-26 | Your orders have reach’d me so late, and found me in such a situation that it will be impossible... |
| 533 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 25 … | 1778-06-25 | inclosed I have the honor to Send you a Letter which clel hamilton was going to send me from this... |
| 534 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 24 … | 1778-06-24 | I have Sign’d the paper because I have been told I schould Sign it, and because almost all the... |
| 535 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 17 … | 1778-06-17 | The situation we are in renders it extremely difficult to have a Settled notion of what is the... |
| 536 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 15 … | 1778-05-15 | Agreable to your excellency’s orders I have taken the oath of the gentlemen officers in general... |
| 537 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 25 … | 1778-04-25 | The present questions are the most difficult to resolve upon that have been proposed since I have... |
| 538 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 25 … | 1778-03-25 | how happy I have been in receiving your excellency’s favor of the tenth present I hope you’l be... |
| 539 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 22 … | 1778-03-22 | I can never miss an opportunity of rembembering to your excellency the mighty Commander in chief... |
| 540 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 20 … | 1778-03-20 | Alwaïs new instances where I find myself obliged to send to Congress—was I not So sensible of... |
| 541 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 13 … | 1778-03-13 | Letter not found: from Major General Lafayette, c.13 Mar. 1778. On 20 Mar., Lafayette wrote Henry... |
| 542 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 27 … | 1778-02-27 | I hope your excellency will have received two letters from me, one by major brice, and the other... |
| 543 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 23 … | 1778-02-23 | I Meet with an occasion of wraïting to your excellency which I wo’nt miss by any means, even... |
| 544 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 19 … | 1778-02-19 | Why am I so far from you, and what business had that board of war to hurry me through the ice and... |
| 545 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 9 … | 1778-02-09 | I can not let go back my guide without taking this opportunity of wraiting to your excellency... |
| 546 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 20 … | 1778-01-20 | I have recieved just now a letter from general connway who is gone on to york town, and mullens... |
| 547 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 13 … | 1778-01-13 | I Schall make use in this particular instance of the liberty you gave me of telling freely every... |
| 548 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Adams, John | To John Adams from Lafayette, 9 January 1778 | 1778-01-09 | Headquarters, 9 January 1778. RC ( Adams Papers ); printed : Lafayette in the Age of the American... |
| 549 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 5 … | 1778-01-05 | As your excellency’s opinion seems to gree with my ideas for ⟨taking⟩ in our service those Non... |
| 550 | Lafayette, Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert du … | Washington, George | To George Washington from Major General Lafayette, 31 … | 1777-12-31 | I schould have much more reproached myself the liberty I took of wraïting to your excellency, if... |