Life of Count Rumford. 367 



On the New Year's day after her arrival, Colonel 

 Baldwin and others of her own and her father's friends 

 gave a ball in Woburn in honor of her return. " The 

 Countess appeared on the occasion in one of her court 

 dresses, of blue satin." 



She goes on with her personal narrative here by say- 

 ing that it was thought best on her return that she 

 should go to board with her old schoolmistress, Mrs. 

 Snow, who still continued, esteemed and active, in her 

 employment, having a select establishment with heavy 

 charges and consequently but few pupils. She pre- 

 viously made visits to her father's honored friend and 

 correspondent, Colonel Loammi Baldwin, at Woburn, 

 to her aunt Reed's, and to Concord. Colonel Baldwin 

 records taking her from her uncle Reed's to Boston, 

 on December n, 1799, an< ^ a ^ so a payment for tickets 

 to the theatre some time after with her, and a pay- 

 ment on June 14, 1802, to Jephthah Richardson for 

 housekeeping, &c. for himself and " the Countess." 



Though I thus anticipate the course of the narrative 

 of Count Rumford's career, it may be as well to follow 

 the brief remainder of the daughter's manuscript to its 

 close as it concerns herself. 



She speaks kindly and gratefully of Mrs. Snow, who 

 received her cordially, and says she was as happy in 

 finding herself at her old school " as was consistent 

 with falling from heaven to earth." She proceeds in 

 her narrative as follows : 



" No other term can express it. Going to my father 

 young, my character was formed by him, and I was 

 accustomed to the society he frequented. I presume 

 that of Munich and London, his chief places of resi- 

 dence, may be called the best in the world. To tell the 



