1From George Washington to the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College, 14 November 1789 (Washington Papers)
In assigning so important an agency to the endeavors of an individual, as is mentioned in your address, you render a tribute to my services, which a sense of propriety forbids me to assume. For the flattering terms in which you are pleased to express your sentiments of those services, and for the kind wishes you prefer in my behalf, I thank you with grateful sincerity. To the animated spirit...