1To James Madison from Louis-André Pichon, 18 May 1801 (Abstract) (Madison Papers)
18 May 1801, Philadelphia. Discusses his wish for restitution of $15,000 that his predecessor, Létombe, left in U.S. when he lost his diplomatic recognition. Notes that Clement Biddle had deposited that amount in U.S. treasury and that apparently the treasury secretary intends to apply it to the cost of aiding French refugees from Saint-Domingue in 1793. Objects to that plan, which only...