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" WOBURN, December 26, 1796. 



14 MY DEAR COUNT, I have received your favor of the 

 2Oth of July last, wherein provision is made for furnishing 

 your kind mother with a gratuity of ,30 sterling, a year. 

 I shall cheerfully undertake to perform the part which you have 

 requested of me, in order to effect your benevolent purpose ; 

 and in pursuance thereof I have made your honored mother 

 acquainted with the arrangements, and agreeably to your instruc- 

 tions have drawn the first set of exchange for ,30 sterling on 

 your new agents, Sir Robert Herries & Co., dated 26th March, 

 1796, and have delivered the same to Jonathan Porter (in whose 

 favor the draft is made) in lieu thereof, and to replace the draft 

 your daughter made in my favor for the same on your late 

 agent, Richard Armstrong, Esq., dated 23d of October, 1795, 

 who refused payment thereof, as appears by my letter of the 

 5th instant, with the protest and papers accompanying it. 

 However, I do not mean that this shall operate to the injury 

 of your mother. 



" Please to accept my sincere thanks for the volume of your 

 Essays which I have received through the hands of our good 

 friend, Doctor Walter. I consider it a work of inestimable 

 merit. It is very much admired by all who have had oppor- 

 tunity to peruse the few copies which have arrived in this coun- 

 try. The author is more frequently spoken of than ever, and 

 daily inquiry is made, when he will return to or visit his native 

 country. 



"Permit me again, with the most cordial affection, to invite 

 your attention to an object in which the wishes of so many 

 unite. Mrs. Baldwin desires to be remembered with particular 

 affection to your daughter. 



"With much esteem, I have the honor to be, my dear Count, 

 " Your most sincere friend, and humble servant, 



"LOAMMI BALDWIN. 



" SIR BENJAMIN, Count of Rumford." 



" The above letter was forwarded by Dr. Welsh's son of 

 Boston, going to Berlin, in Prussia." 



