A = A3 a> ^ =^ (— M =^= 33 = -^ 30 2 = = CI ^^ o 1 ^^ i. 8 ^ 03 ^■^" 6 - 5 = = 3> n ^^= ^^^ -c ^ ^JXlT"'^] 7^ JU^yv OU- /cX^l/ Cu^yy^^^^ / A^-^vwUgX i2A.^MJU^ Mfr SRLF URL 'Y The Visit of Lafayette THE VISIT OF LAFAYETTE The Old Housekeeper's Sto?y BY LUCIA GRAY SWETT Author of " Sisters of Keparutrice " BOSTON LEE AND SHl'l'ARD 1903 Copyright, 1903, By Lucia Gray Swett, All rights reserved. THE VISIT OF LAFAYETTE. Published, October, IQ03. llncklBtll anb Cfeurcbill ^nss BOSTON The portrait of General Lafayette, from zvhich this picture was photographed, is in the Lee Memorial Chapel of the Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and by the kind permission of Dr. Denny, President of the University, we are permitted to use it for our frontispiece. This and a very fine portrait of General Washington were presented to the University i>)' General George Washington Custis Lee, the eldest son of General Robert E. Lee, and they were inherited by him from his grandfather, who was the grandson of Martha Washington. This picture was painted for General Washington and probably presented to him by General Lafayette. The artist was Charles Wilson Peak, the father of Rembrandt Peale, and usually known as the Elder Peale. HIS picture of Geqeral Lafayette \^as copied froDq oqe of a pair of rqedallioqs, etcl:]ir\gs or) tt\e — bacK of a pair of loqg -wi^ite Kid gloves. Tt\e gloves were woq frorri Geqeral Lafayette by Miss Eliza Roarie ov\ a t]orserace at Fairfield, r|ear Ricl^iriorid, Yirgiqia, iq 1824. Miss Roar^e -was afterward Mrs. filbert G. Ruffir), arid l^er secoqd tiusbaqd was Goverqor McDonald, of Georgia. Miss Eliza McDonald Ruffin, of fllben\arie Courity, Yir- giqia, is rioW tl^e possessor of tl|ese gloves, ar[d it is to \\eT kindriess tl|at I owe \\\e above picture. Miss Ruffiq is a great-great-grariddaugl:\ter of Tbiorqas cJeffersor\, ar\d it Was at l]is tiorqe, Moqticello, iq fllbecqarle Couqty, tlriat Lafayette paid t\is faii\ous visit to