294 Life of Count Rumford. 



" I have now only to add my love to your daughter, the 

 Countess, to whom Mrs. Baldwin has just written, and close 

 at this time with that sentiment I have so often expressed, with- 

 out which I don't know that I shall ever conclude another letter 

 until the object (which is to see you once more in your native 

 country) is obtained. 



" 1 have the honor to be, with great respect, my dear Count, 

 tl Your obedient and very humble servant, 



"LOAMMI BALDWIN. 



" Si* BENJAMIN, Count of Rumford." 



"The above letter to be forwarded by Dr. Welsh's son, 

 of Boston, who is going to Berlin, as Secretary to Mr. Adams, 

 the American Minister at that Court. 



("Sealed up, July 30, 1798.") 



Considering the punctilious character, especially in 

 all business affairs, both of Count Rumford and of 

 Colonel Baldwin, it must have been a grievous vexa- 

 tion to them that, besides the delays connected with the 

 transmission of letters, there should have happened a 

 protest of a note drawn by the Countess for the benefit 

 of his mother, as this letter indicates. 



"MUNICH, yth January, 1798. 



44 DEAR SIR, By some unaccountable delay, your letter of 

 the 5th DecT, 1796, did not reach me till a few days ago. My 

 Bankers in London, Sir Robert Herries & Co., of St. James' 

 St., have directed their Correspondent in Boston (whose name 

 you will be made acquainted with) to pay you the amount of 

 the Bill of Exchange drawn by my Daughter on my late Agent 

 in London, Capt. Armstrong, for .30 sterling, dated Boston, 

 October 23 d , 1/95, together with the Costs arising from the 

 protest of that Bill, Interest, &c., which altogether amounted 

 to .32. 5. 9. sterling, according to the account you have trans- 



