From Lafayette
La Grange 5. frim.1 26. November 1804.
My dear Sir
It ought to have been my fate to Introduce General Moreau to my paternal friend there to meet the Welcome adequate to his Worth. But since he can only visit the venerated Mansion, I know that you, my dear Sir, and all the family will have due feelings for the Circumstance of Receiving Moreau under the late Roof of Washington— Let me only add that, with much Regret not to be one of you in receiving him. I am very affectionately Yours.
LB (photostat), DLC: Lafayette Papers. The internal address reads, "To M. Bushrod Washington Mount vernon."
1. Abbreviation of the month Frimaire from the French Republican calendar