The College is the 
primary lender to an exhibit entitled
A Son and His Adoptive Father: The Marquis de Lafayette
and George Washington, on display through Aug. 5 in the new F.M. Kirby Foundation Gallery at Mount Vernon.
More than 60 items are on loan from the College. Among them are several of the most significant original letters that Lafayette wrote to Washington, including the 1783 letter containing Lafayette’s proposal to Washington about freeing slaves, the 1790 letter that transmitted the key to the Bastille, and letters written partially in code during the American Revolution.
There are also portraits, engravings, documents, a sword, china, glassware, medals, textiles, and sheet music from the College’s collections. The exhibit will open at the College Aug. 27 and at the New-York Historical Society Nov. 13.