1To George Washington from Dr. Thomas Bond, Sr., 27 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
"The American Philosphical society held at Philadelphia for promoting usefull knowledge" beg leave to welcome Your Excellencys return from your late glorious expedition. Sensible of the influence of civil liberty on the purposes of their institution, they have always conceived their interests as a society to be dependant on the great cause of their country; indebted to former successes of the...
2From George Washington to Dr. Thomas Bond, Sr., 28 December 1781 (Washington Papers)
Permit me, through you, to return my warmest thanks to the American Philosophical Society, for this very polite mark of their attention and esteem. I have ever set the highest value upon the honor which was conferred on me, when admitted into a Society instituted for the noblest of all purposes, that of "promoting useful knowledge"—and have long wished for an oppertunity of rendering myself,...