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Lafayettej Guglielmo Pepe e Vltalia 505
eoiinaissauce ayee3ul. et je vons rend un bon office a tous deux en vous adressant Vrm à l'autre: je m'occupe de mes arrangements de voyage: vous approuverez sans doute que je n'aye pas pronte de l'offre honorable d'avoir un vaisseau de l'etàt exprés ponr nioì : il y a de trés bonnes raisons de passer la mer sous pavlllon amériealn et dès que jaurals termine cjuélques affaires 3'i rais porter dans l'autre rlvage les bommages de ma reconuaissauce et de moni attachement. 2Iebez le general Pepe en rapport avec nos amia, et re-cevez l'expression de l'amltié que je vous al vouée de tout mon coeur.
Lafayette. <i.it General Bernard. Xew-Torlfì

Paris, May 12th, 1824. My dear friend,
General Pepe's cbaraeter is so wéll known to yon tbat it is only as bis friend tbat I ciano tbe rlght of lntroduetion to MontleeTlo; time ls not very dlstant when I wUl have the deliglit to introduce myself. But as he goes from England, I from France, and my owni arrangements are not yet settled, I thought I had better transmlt these linea for you, senslble as I am of the pleasure you wfll feel in a personal acqualntance with the gallant Neapolitau patriot. Expecting the inexpresSlble gratiflcation to embrace you before long I am with ali my heart your old friend.
Lafayette.
Thomas Jefferson, Bsq, - Montìcello - State of Virgìnia.
VI.
Paris, May 14th 1824. My dear Siir,
This lettcr will be delirerai by tì.al Pepe whose nenie is a sufficient in-trodaction, hut whom l waut to present to you as my personal friend; Bis nobie eonduet in the Neapolitau revolution, Hls subsequent exertion in the Service of tòte sanie cause wherever it has offered some chance of success, and the high esteem in which He stands in Europe wìH teli you more your thnn l eau espatriate upon. Permit me to present Hhn very partloulariy to