4097. JEFFERSON (Thomas), Harvard's honors.—
I have been lately honored with your letter of September 24th, 1788, accompanied
by a diploma for a Doctorate of
Laws, which the University of Harvard has
been pleased to confer on me. Conscious
how little I merit it, I am the more sensible
of their goodness and indulgence to a
stranger, who has had no means of serving
or making himself known to them. I beg you
to return them my grateful thanks, and to
assure them that this notice from so eminent
a seat of science is very precious to me.—
To Dr. Willard. Washington ed. iii, 14.
(P.
1789)
