From George Washington to the Earl of Dundonald, 9 July 1795
To the Earl of Dundonald
Philadelphia 9th July 1795
My Lord,
By Mr Jay I had the honor to receive your Lordships favor of the 9th of April, accompanying your treatise “on the intimate connection that subsists between agriculture and chemistry.”1 The work must be curious and interesting, and for your goodness in sending it to me, I pray your Lordship to accept the best thanks of your most Obedient and Obliged Hble Servant
Go: Washington
ALS (letterpress copy), DLC:GW; LB, DLC:GW.
Archibald Cochrane, ninth Earl of Dundonald (1748–1831), is known chiefly as an inventor and a manufacturer of chemicals.
This letter probably was carried to Dundonald by William Strickland (see GW to John Sinclair, 10 July, n.1).
1. GW was quoting from Dundonald’s letter, which informed GW that the treatise was being sent (ALS, PHi: Gratz Collection; Sprague transcript, DLC:GW). The earl’s work, published in March of that year, was titled A Treatise, Shewing the Intimate Connection that Subsists between Agriculture and Chemistry. Addressed to the Cultivators of the Soil, to the Proprietors of Fens and Mosses, in Great Britain and Ireland; and to the Proprietors of West India Estates (London). Cochrane’s work remained in GW’s library at the time of his death (see 49–50).