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dissolve the soul into liquid joy, and mingle a divine affinity. 

 I participate most feelingly in the joy of this event. God grant 

 you both a long and happy existence ! I know you will con- 

 tinue to be pleased with your amiable daughter. She is really a 

 fine girl. She was beloved by everybody when she was here, 

 and I only regret, and this I do sincerely, that it was not in my 

 power to pay more attention to her education and happiness 

 than I did. Her enterprising disposition made up for part of 

 my neglect, but she is now in the immediate care of one who 

 will do everything for her. She acknowledges in expressions 

 of tenderness how affectionately you received and loved her. 



"We are not disappointed in hearing that your daughter has 

 resolved to accompany you to Bavaria. We have only to con- 

 sider whose daughter she is, and everything good and great are 

 the ideas that succeed. I long for the period to arrive when 

 you shall make a visit to your native country. Thousands are 

 ardently desirous of seeing you here. 



" Mrs. Baldwin, although unknown, desires to be named to 

 you in terms expressive of the happiness she feels on the kind 

 reception you gave her dear friend, Miss Thompson, whose 

 welfare is ever near her heart. Give our best love to Sally, 

 and tell her that we all think and speak of her often, and hope 

 erelong to see her again in this country. 



" I wish for an opportunity to acquaint you with the many 

 enterprises and various improvements going forward in this 

 country, but time will not permit. 



" I am, with much respect and esteem, 



" My dear Count, your most affectionate friend, 



"LOAMMI BALDWIN. 



" SIR BENJAMIN THOMPSON, 

 Count of Rumford." 



It would seem, from the above, that it had been 

 intended that the daughter should merely make a visit 

 to her father while he was superintending the publica- 

 tion of his Essays in England, and that her going to 

 reside with him for a time in Bavaria was an after- 



