COUNT RUM FORD 



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Autograph and Seal of Rumford. 



On the opposite side is the following: 



Rumford, the friend of mankind, by genius, 



taste and love inspired, changed 



this once desert place into what thou 



now beholdest. 



His health being impaired, he spent more than a year in Italy, and 

 then returned to England after an absence of eleven years. On enter- 

 ing London he met with a terrible loss, which he never ceased to 

 bemoan. While passing St. Paul's churchyard in the evening, his post- 

 chaise was stopped and a trunk containing all his private papers was 

 cut from its fastenings and stolen. He said : " By this cruel robbery, 

 I have been deprived of the fruits of the labor of my whole life and 

 have lost all that I hold most valuable." 



Rumford's wife had died in 1792 and his daughter, who was an 



Profile Portrait. (Bas-relief.) 



