To James Madison from Stephen Girard, 21 October 1802

From Stephen Girard

Philadelphia 21st. October 1802

Sir

I had the honour to write you on the 24th. of September1 respecting some Bills of Exchange &a. Not having heard from you on that Subject I take the Liberty to Send you this Letter by Mr. Robt. Bethell Junr.2 of this City and beg as a particular favour that you will give the necessary orders So the fourteen Bills of Exchange drawn by the french Administration of St. Domingo on the french Government together with a Delegation drawn by Mr. Sonthonax on Mr. Genet Minister Plenipotentiary to the U. States of Amca. inclosed in a Bundle which I have deposited in the Secretary of State Office in the Year 1795, may be delivered to that Gentleman. I am Respectfully Sir Your mot obt. Servt.

S. G.

Letterbook copy (PPGi: Girard Papers).

1. PJM-SS description begins Robert J. Brugger et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Secretary of State Series (4 vols. to date; Charlottesville, Va., 1986—). description ends , 3:598.

2. Robert Bethell, Jr., and his father had entered into a partnership in the ship Fanny with Girard in 1801 (Harry Emerson Wildes, Lonely Midas: The Story of Stephen Girard [New York, 1943], pp. 162, 311).

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Title: To James Madison from Stephen Girard, 21 October 1802
Author: Girard, Stephen
Recipient: Madison, James
Date: 21 October 1802

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Cite as: “To James Madison from Stephen Girard, 21 October 1802,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/02-04-02-0049. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Secretary of State Series, vol. 4, 8 October 1802 – 15 May 1803, ed. Mary A. Hackett, J. C. A. Stagg, Jeanne Kerr Cross, Susan Holbrook Perdue, and Ellen J. Barber. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, p. 39.]

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