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before for a person of distinction, who dying, it was shut up. 

 Afterwards my father persuaded the then reigning Elector, 

 Charles Theodore, to have it opened and let the Russian Am- 

 bassador take the first and my father the second floor. Through 

 the porte-cochere passed all vehicles, foot-passengers, &c., by the 

 width, possibly, of two rooms, those making part of the first 

 floor, into an- open court enclosed by the building. The prin- 

 cipal staircase there being others commenced between the 

 entrance and the court, wide enough for four abreast, with oak 

 or mahogany stairs waxed and rubbed, looking like plate-glass. 

 As an inhabitant of this place, where my father spent many of 

 the most useful years of his life, I propose to mention it without 

 going into more particulars." 



The course of Miss Sally's narrative must here be 

 interrupted, first to introduce another letter from her to 

 her friend, Mrs. Baldwin, and then to recognize her 

 father's valuable service in the responsible work for 

 which the Elector had summoned him back to Munich. 



"MUNICH, October 16, 1796. 



"Mr DEAR MRS. BALDWIN, Though this is the third 

 letter that I have written you since I left America, and I 

 have never received a line from you, yet I cannot refuse 

 myself the pleasure of writing you a few lines to tell you 

 I am well and happy, and that I often think of you. I 

 arrived here with my father after a pleasant journey of three 

 weeks and two days from London. My reception here was 

 highly flattering, and I have every reason to be pleased and happy 

 with my new situation. This country is much more like America 

 than England, and the climate is exactly like that I have ever been 

 used to in America, so that I sometimes almost fancy myself there. 

 The town of Munich is large, clean, and well built, and it affords 

 every public amusement that is to be found in any city of Europe. 

 Be so good as to give my respects to your husband, and love to 

 the children. I am, with real esteem and friendship, 

 " Affectionately yours, 



"SARAH RUMFORD." 

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