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your opinion of it, requesting that you would make such altera- 

 tions in it as you may judge to be proper. 



" If you think my letter ought to be addressed to any other 

 Person than the Person proposed, you will tell me so. You 

 will likewise be so kind as to point out the Person or Persons 

 to whom the models ought to be presented. 



u I was yesterday at Gravesend, and saw my Daughter into 

 the Boat that carried her on board the Minerva. She has left 

 England deeply impressed with a sense of the kindness she 

 experienced from you and from your Lady. Her father joins 

 her in thanks for these kind attentions, and will ever remain, 

 my dear Sir, 



" Your much obliged and most obedient servant, 



" RUMFORD. 



" BROMPTON, Monday morning, 2,6th August, 1799." 

 " His Excellency RUFUS KING, &c., &c." 



" BRIGHTON, August 28, 1799. 



" DEAR SIR, I have duly received your obliging letter of 

 the 26th, and herewith return the Draft of a letter that you 

 propose should accompany the models of the field-piece, &c. I 

 see nothing to add or alter excepting in the address, which 

 should be to the Secretary at War, instead of the Sec'y of 

 State. I have taken the liberty, as you will observe, to make 

 this alteration with a pencil. 



" The models should also be addressed to the Secretary at 

 War. As we are now shipping a number of articles to Phila- 

 delphia, I have desired my Secretary to take measures to remove 

 the boxes directly from your house to our Agent's in the City, as 

 soon as he learns by a note from you that they are ready. 



" I have lately received a Dispatch from my Government, 

 the contents of which will not fail to increase those favorable 

 sentiments you so naturally feel concerning your Native Coun- 

 try, and I permit myself to hope will prove an additional motive 

 to the execution of your intentions soon to revisit it. 



" As I shall be in town in the course of the next week, where 



