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TITLE: MEMOIRS, CORRESPONDENCE AND MANUSCRIPTS OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE
AUTHOR: LAFAYETTE
EBOOK: E00511 (O'Briens Book Cellar)

MEMOIRS

CORRESPONDENCE AND MANUSCRIPTS

OF

GENERAL LAFAYETTE

PUBLISHED BY HIS FAMILY.

Entered according to the act of Congress, in the year 1837,

by William A. Duer,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

Respectfully to collect and scrupulously to arrange the manuscripts of
which an irreparable misfortune has rendered them depositaries, have
been for the Family of General Lafayette the accomplishment of a
sacred duty.

To publish those manuscripts without any commentary, and place them,
unaltered, in the hands of the friends of Liberty, is a pious and
solemn homage which his children now offer with confidence to his
memory.

GEORGE WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE.

ADVERTISEMENT

OF THE AMERICAN EDITOR.

       *       *       *       *       *

It was the desire of the late General Lafayette, that this edition of
his Memoirs and Correspondence should be considered as a legacy of the
American people. His representatives have accordingly pursued a course
which they conceived the best adapted to give effect to his wishes, by
furnishing a separate edition for this country, without any
reservation for their own advantage, beyond the transfer of the
copyright as an indemnity for the expense and risk of publication.

In this edition are inserted some letters which will not appear in the
editions published in Paris and London. They contain details relating
to the American Revolution, and render the present edition more
complete, or, at least, more interesting to Americans. Although
written during the first residence of General Lafayette in
America--when he was little accustomed to write in the English
language--the letters in question are given exactly as they came from
his pen--and as well as the others in the collection written by him in
that language are distinguished from those translated from the French
by having the word "Original" prefixed to them.

It was intended that these letters should have been arranged among
those in the body of the work; in the order of their respective dates;
but as the latter have been stereotyped before the former had been
transmitted to the American editor, this design was rendered
impracticable. They have therefore from necessity been added in a
supplemental form with the marginal notes which seemed requisite for
their explanation.

Columbia College, N. Y., July, 1837.

CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

  Notice by the Editors

  FIRST VOYAGE AND FIRST CAMPAIGN IN AMERICA--1777, 1778.

    Memoirs written by myself, until the year 1780

    FRAGMENTS EXTRACTED FROM VARIOUS MANUSCRIPTS

      A.--Departure for America in 1777

      B.--First Interview between General Washington
          and General Lafayette

      C.--On the Military commands during the Winter of 1778

      D.--Retreat of Barren Hill

      E.--Arrival of the French Fleet

      F.--Dissensions between the French Fleet
          and the American Army

    CORRESPONDENCE--1777, 1778:

      To the Duke d'Ayen. London, March 9, 1777

      To Madame de Lafayette. On board the Victory, May 30

      To Madame de Lafayette. Charlestown, June 19

      To Madame de Lafayette. Petersburg, July 17

      To Madame de Lafayette.--July 23

      To Madame de Lafayette. Philadelphia, Sept. 12

      To Madame de Lafayette.--Oct. 1

      To M. de Vergennes, Minister of Foreign affairs.
          Whitemarsh Camp, Oct. 24

      To Madame de Lafayette. Whitemarsh Camp, Oct. 29, and Nov. 6

      To General Washington. Haddonfeld, Nov. 26

      To the Duke d'Ayen. Camp Gulph, Pennsylvania, Dec. 16

      To General Washington. Camp, Dec. 30

      To General Washington. Head Quarters, Dec. 31

      To General Washington. Valley Forge, Dec. 31

      To Madame de Lafayette. Camp, near Valley Forge, Jan. 6, 1778

      To General Washington

      To Madame de Lafayette. York. Feb 3

      To General Washington. Hermingtown, Feb. 9

      To General Washington. Albany, Feb. 19

      To General Washington.--Feb. 23

      From General Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette.
          Head Quarters, March 10

      To Baron de Steuben. Albany, March 12

      Fragment of a Letter to the President of Congress.
          Albany, March 20

      To General Washington. Albany, March 25

      To Madame de Lafayette. Valley Forge Camp,
          in Pennsylvania, April 14

      To Madame de Lafayette. Germantown, April 28

      To General Washington. Valley Forge Camp, May 19

      From General Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette.
          Camp, May 17

      To the Marquis de Lafayette. (Instructions.)

      To Madame de Lafayette. Valley Forge Camp, June 16

      To the Marquis de Lafayette. (Instructions.)

      To General Washington. Ice Town, June 26

      From General Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette.
          Cranberry, June 26

      From General Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette.
          White Plains, July 22

      From General Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette.
          Head Quarters, White Plains, July 27

      To General Washington. Providence, Aug. 6

      From General Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette.
          White Plains, Aug. 10

      To General Washington. Camp before Newport, Aug. 25

      From General Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette.
          White Plains, Sept.

      From General Washington to Major-General Sullivan.
          Head Quarters, White Plains, Sept. 1

      From General Washington to Major-General Greene.
          Head Quarters, White Plains, Sept. 1

      To General Washington. Tyverton, Sept. I

      To General Washington. Camp, near Bristol, Sept. 7

      To the Duke d'Ayen. Bristol, near Rhode Island, Sept. 11

      To Madame de Lafayette. Bristol, near Rhode Island, Sept. 13

      President Laurens to the Marquis de Lafayette.
          Philadelphia, Sept. 13

      Marquis de Lafayette to President Laurens. Camp, Sept. 23

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