1From George Washington to the Corporation of Rhode Island College, 19 August 1790 (Washington Papers)
The circumstances which have, until this time, prevented you from offering your congratulations on my advancement to the station I hold in the Government of the United States, do not diminish the pleasure I feel in receiving this flattering proof of your affection & esteem. For which I request you will accept my thanks. In repeating thus publicly my sense of the zeal you displayed for the...