Joseph BONAPARTE. L.A. (minute), Philadelphia 10 May 1820, to Mme de Montholon 1 page in-4 with erasures and corrections (upper part slightly faded). He has been informed by O'Meara 'that you had not at that time received the funds which the Emperor had assigned to you, although I had given orders to make this payment even with my own funds, if it could not be done otherwise [...] Today, I can only urge you to consult M. the Emperor must have thought that I could dispose of his funds, or of mine, but the too great losses that I experienced by the total burning of my house on 4 January deprive me of the means to do so"...