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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Collection Number:	M92- 1
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	Collection/Series Title:	Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925.
	Container:	00001
	File Unit:	00001.00013
	Item:	00022
	Title:	Letter, November 21 [1889], Ellen Call Long, Paris, to Monsieur Edmond de Lafayette, Paris, 4 pp. [last page missing], "Rough Copy" in which she makes note of a letter of introduction from the American Minister Whitlaw Reid, recalls the visit of Lafayette's grandfather the Marquis de Lafayette to Andrew Jackson's residence the Hermitage, notes that the Ladies Hermitage Association "have bestowed upon one of the Rooms, in the Hermitage Dwelling the name of 'The Marquis de Lafayette,' the same as known to have been occupied by him on his visit in the year 1825 to Genl Jackson," and asks him "to donate some or any of the personal effects of your Grandfather to the adornment of this chamber -- a Portrait, bed room or library furniture, or anything that was used by him, however old or rejected . . ."
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