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    <title>Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, papers, 1776-1934</title>
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    <namePart>Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier</namePart>
    <namePart type="termsOfAddress">marquis de</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1757-1834</namePart>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, legal documents, clippings, broadsides, orderly book, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Lafayette's military service in Canada and Virginia, his tour of the United States (1824-1825), his land in Florida, and his views on such topics as the slave trade and the French government.  Also includes material pertaining to the centennial observance of his death.  Correspondents include Thomas Clarkson, George Washington Parke Custis, Mordecai Gist, George Graham, Catherine Littlefield Greene, Abiel Holmes, Charles King, Henry Laurens, Antoine Vaudoyer, Marinus Willett, and William Woodford.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition of selected correspondence available, no. 4,390.</note>
  <note>In part, microfilm, photocopies, and transcripts. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Microfilm of originals in private hands.</note>
  <note>Soldier and statesman.</note>
  <note>Collection material in French and English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009082">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009082</note>
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      <namePart>Clarkson, Thomas</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1760-1846</namePart>
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      <namePart>Custis, George Washington Parke</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1781-1857</namePart>
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      <namePart>Gist, Mordecai</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1742-1792</namePart>
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      <namePart>Graham, George</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1770-1830</namePart>
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      <namePart>Greene, Catherine Littlefield</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Holmes, Abiel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1763-1837</namePart>
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      <namePart>King, Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1789-1867</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Laurens, Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1724-1792</namePart>
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      <namePart>Vaudoyer, Antoine</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1756-1846</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Willett, Marinus</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1740-1830</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Woodford, William</namePart>
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    <geographic>Florida</geographic>
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    <topic>Description and travel</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
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