Signed autograph letter, signed « Lafayette », Paris 4 February 1788, to Louis-Guillaume Otto (1754-1817); 1 page small in-4 (trace of rust from a paper clip); in French
Letter to Louis-Guillaume OTTO, comte de Mosloy (1754-1817), Secretary of the French Legation to the United States.
Otto entered the French diplomatic service, becoming private secretary to César de La Luzerne in Bavaria, before being despatched in 1779 on a diplomatic mission to the newly formed United States of America. While in Philadelphia, he succeeded François Barbé-Marbois as Secretary of the French Legation in May 1785, serving another two terms as Chargé d’affaires ad interim, having established cordial relations with George Washington and other senior members of Congress. While in the United States he authored reports analyzing the American Constitution and the prospects for its ratification
Lafayette discusses commercial and political relations between the two countries. He transcuits a letter of the Bisop of Condom and encourages good relations and support to Thomas JEFFERSON.
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