1To George Washington from Paul Joseph Guérard de Nancrède, 11 May 1796 (Washington Papers)
In submitting to your patronage, the inclosed work, we flatter ourselves, that our particular application or its mode, will not be deemed presumptuous or intrusive, when you consider that, although it be acknowledged by those who have read it, one of the most ingenious and moral productions extant, yet there are very few copies of it in america; and as it is the particular province of men of...