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quent visits. Before joining her father in England, 

 as well as after her arrival, she had informed him of her 

 obligations to this excellent family, which doubtless 

 prompted him to write the following letter to President 

 Willard. 



"LONDON, 25th March, 1796. 



"REVEREND SIR, The affectionate manner in which my 

 daughter speaks of you, and of your kindness to her, has shown 

 me how good you have been to her ; and though I have not the 

 pleasure of being personally known to you, I cannot help taking 

 the liberty of writing to you, to express the obligations I feel 

 myself under to you for your friendly attentions to my child. 

 Though I have not the honor of being personally acquainted 

 with you, I am no stranger to the respectable character you 

 bear ; and nothing could have been more pleasing to me than to 

 find that my daughter had found means to attract your notice, 

 and to merit your approbation and friendship. 



" Excuse the liberty I take in troubling you with this letter, 

 and do me the justice to believe that it is with much esteem and 

 regard I have the honor to be, Sir, your much obliged and most 



obedient servant, 



"RUMFORD."* 



Here is another letter from Miss Sally, as, for a 

 reason to be soon given, she is daily in expectation 

 of leaving England, with her father, for Germany. 



"LONDON, June 13, 1796. 



" MY DEAR MRS. BALDWIN, I cannot quit England with- 

 out writing once more to my dear friend, although I have not 

 yet received letters from you in return to the ones I wrote you 

 upon my first arrival here. I do not believe you think of me so 

 often as I do of you, for I am sure there is not a day, nor hardly 

 an hour, that I do not think of you. I hope by this time, my 

 dear Mrs. Baldwin, that your canal-hurry is a little over. But 



* Memories of Youth and Manhood. By Sydney Willard. Cambridge. 1855. 

 Vol. I. p. i<;6. 



