LAFAYETTE GILBERT DU MOTIER; MARQUIS DE Autograph Letter Sig

Sale 2228 - Lot 12

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SUGGESTS SPEAKING TO JEFFERSON ABOUT SUPPLIES FOR AMERICA LAFAYETTE, GILBERT DU MOTIER; MARQUIS DE. Autograph Letter Signed, twice, in the third person within the text, to Philip Mazzei, in English, returning papers and suggesting that Mazzei speak with the American Minister [to France, Thomas Jefferson] about obtaining military supplies for America. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; folds, minor scattered soiling, docketing on terminal page; matted and framed. Np, "friday morning" [28 October 1785]

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"[I]n Case Mr. Mazzey's Affairs in Holland did not Make it Necessary He should go there Before Mr. Jefferson's Return, He thinks that the American Minister and Consul Might Be glad to talk with him on a plan to get some military stores in that Country--it is only an idea of the Marquis de Lafayette, But He Has thoughts one or two day's delay would not Have Any inconvenience, and in that Case takes the liberty to give this little Hint to Mr. Mazzey."