In this letter, Lafayette mourns the death of Pinckney and shares his concerns about the poor health of former President Monroe. He writes: "Here is another loss among our Revolutionary Brothers in Arms. The Excellent Thomas Pinckney has joined the far greater part of us who have left this world. I am doubly grieved to hear my intimate friend Mr. Monroe Had a dangerous fall from His Horse, and finds himself in pecuniary circumstances still more deplorable than I Had apprehended ... What can be done? I am sure you are ready to promote everything that could procure His Relief to Be instrumental in such a patriotic action would also be to me a Real Relief. The more so when I compare what Has be done for me to what Has Not Been done for him ..." It relates to four original members of the Society of the Cincinnati: Lafayette was a founding member of the Société des Cincinnati de France; Nicholas Fish was one of Lafayette's American comrade-in-arms who became an original member of the New York Society; Thomas Pinckney was president general of the Society of the Cincinnati; James Monroe was an original member of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati. Docketed on verso: "La Grange Dec. 8th 1828. From Genl Lafayette by young Mr. Viton"; penciled note on verso: "anxious that some provision should be made for Presidt Monroe."