1To Thomas Jefferson from Edward F. Bond, 17 October 1806 (Jefferson Papers)
On the arrival of James Wilkinson Esqr. to take the Governors seat in this Territory I was chosen by this District to wait on him with a complimentary Address, the Governor Received me with Politeness and complesancy and after a short conversation, he observed he had been acquanted with my family &c. & before I left him he bestowed on me a small share of his confidence by giving me several...
2Edward F. Bond to Thomas Jefferson, 5 January 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
The conviction that a man w of your Standing in the Republick of the United States is often pestered with addresses Pettitions and Requests for favours gives birth to an almost unconquerable Diffidence, and induces me thus to Preface the Object of the Present Epistle with an appolegy for the Liberty I take, I once had the Honour of an Introductio n by Doct r Archer a member from Harford County...