To Thomas Jefferson from Lafayette, 4 June 1805
From Lafayette
La Grange 15h. prairial 4h June 1805
My dear friend
This Letter will Be presented By Mm. Armand de Lesser and Casimir Rham two Swiss Gentlemen, Near Relations to My Excellent friends Mm. de Lesser. permit me to Recommend them to You, and as they Will Be Long on their Way I only Add the Expression of My Grateful Affection and Respect
Lafayette
RC (DLC); endorsed by TJ as received 3 Feb. 1806 and so recorded in SJL.
Gentlemen: Armand Delessert belonged to a prominent family of French industrialists, which included his uncle, Paris banker Étienne Delessert (Séverine de Coninck, Banquiers et philanthropes: La famille Delessert, [1735-1868], aux origines des caisses d’épargne françaises [Paris, 2000], 4, 63). For Henry Casimir de Rham, see , 9:430n.