LAFAYETTE GILBERT DU MOTIER; MARQUIS DE Autograph Letter Sig

Sale 2139 - Lot 105

Price Realized: $ 960

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

LAFAYETTE, GILBERT DU MOTIER; MARQUIS DE. Autograph Letter Signed, to Mr. Cohen, in English, expressing regret at not having been able to meet and explaining that he has been attending to an ill friend. 1 page, 4to, with integral address leaf; docketed in ink along bottom edge on recto, small seal tear at right edge just touching text, marginal discoloration from matting, folds; matted and framed. Np, [10 January 1820]

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"I much regret not to have had the gratification to meet you yesterday and would have called at the Hotel Meurice had I not been kept to this hour at the musing of the doctors and obliged to attend a mourning duty . . . You find me, my dear Sir, in the mutual anxiety for our poor Frederic. The night, which was anticipated as a very important and alarming crisis[?] has not been so bad as we might have feared . . . two hours of it have been very sad . . . He is very ill indeed, but not beyond the hope of recovery."