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interest. The purchaser had proposed to be lenient in 

 his exactions if he could have as a substitute the new 

 draft in favor of the Count's mother, to replace that of 

 her granddaughter. 



One of Mrs. Pierce's orders upon Mr. Baldwin is as 

 follows : 



" FI.INTSTOWN, June 6, 1797. 



"SiR, If you will deliver Mr. Barnard Douglass the bill of 

 exchange which my son, Count Rumford, requested you to draw 

 in my favor for the year 1797, or, if the bill is sold, the pro- 

 ceeds of it, you will greatly oblige her who is, with the great- 

 est esteem and respect, 



" Yours, 



"RUTH PIERCE." 



An indorsement on the above reads : 



" BOSTON, June 17, 1797. Received of Loammi Baldwin 

 a set of bills of exchange, drawn by him in my favor, on Sir 

 Robert Herries & Co., Bankers, St. James Street, London, dated 

 March 26, 1797, for the sum of Thirty Pounds sterling, which 

 bills I promise to sell for the most they will sell for, and deliver 

 the proceeds of sale thereof to Mrs. Ruth Pierce, agreeably to 

 the within order. 



BARNARD DOUGLASS." 



" Attest, BENJ. F. BALDWIN." 



Here is a letter from the Count to his friend Bald- 

 win, of a most pleasing tenor. It again refers to the 

 wish of the writer at least to make a visit to his native 

 country, and it relates the grateful circumstances under 

 which his daughter received her title as Countess, and 

 her pension, both of which she enjoyed to the close of 

 her life. 



