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numerous favors which I have already received. I am, with the 

 greatest respect and esteem, 



" Your most obedient and very humble servant, 



"LOAMMI BALDWIN. 

 " SIR BENJAMIN, Count of Rumford." 



" WOBURN, July 31, 1798. 



"Mr DEAR COUNT, I have time by Mr. Welsh just to 

 acknowledge the receipt of your favors of the iyth of Decem- 

 ber and the yth of January last. Mr. Welsh, whom I have 

 taken the liberty to recommend to your notice, will be the 

 bearer of this and a number of other letters which should have 

 been forwarded long ago, but I must beg you to excuse it. For 

 reasons which I shall give you at another time, they have been 

 delayed. 



" I have, agreeably to your desire, attended to the various 

 objects you have mentioned in your letter of the iyth of De- 

 cember last, and have them all in train, and hope soon to effect 

 them agreeably to your wishes. I happened to see Mr. Rolfe 

 as he was on a journey, and had a pretty full conversation with 

 him. He seems desirous of meeting you on the terms proposed, 

 and acknowledged them generous, yet seemed to hesitate a little 

 on account of some administration accounts with Judge Walker. 

 However, he concluded to take a little more time to consider 

 and write me, but has not done it yet. 



"I have seen Judge Walker since. He tells me that the 

 accounts referred to above will be closed the beginning of Au- 

 gust next. He is very willing to do everything you wish on his 

 part, but thinks your daughter should give him some kind of a 

 discharge when the business is closed. 



" I have no doubt, from what I learn from those gentlemen of 

 Concord whom I have conversed with on the subject of the 

 Countess of Rumford's benevolent donation, but that it will 

 be most cordially received. The Mrs. Nowell whom you 

 mention is dead. Your dear mother was with us here last 

 week, in fine health for a lady of her years, and looks just as 

 she used to do. She desires to be remembered to you and your 

 daughter. Friends in general well. 



