Letter not found. 2 April 1790. La Forest was the French vice-consul in New York. Calendared on the list probably kept by Peter Force (DLC: Madison Miscellany).
“Comte de La Forest to James Madison, 2 April 1790,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-13-02-0097. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, vol. 13, 20 January 1790 – 31 March 1791, ed. Charles F. Hobson and Robert A. Rutland. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981, p. 135.]