370 Life of Count Rumford. 



was very attentive in writing to his daughter, and she 

 counts one hundred and four letters as received from 

 him between her leaving him and her rejoining him, 

 an interval of eleven years. 



She acquiesces in the wisdom of his judgment that 

 she was better fitted to live in this country, but adds 

 that the contrast between her situation and his pre- 

 vented her making the most of herself here. By invita- 

 tion of a very rich lady, a friend of hers, whose daugh- 

 ters were all married at a distance, she became to her a 

 favored companion, and travelled with her to New 

 York and Philadelphia, and in the British Dominions. 

 She also made short visits to the few relatives who 

 offered her their hospitalities ; but she acknowledges 

 that she was discontented everywhere. 



The following long letter from Baldwin, though it 

 unduly lengthens this chapter, may properly close it, as 

 it belongs to the period before us, and is a reply to the 

 similar extended letter of the Count. 



" WOBURN, November 4, 1799. 



" MY DEAR COUNT, I am happy in having an opportunity 

 of congratulating you on the safe arrival of your amiable daugh- 

 ter in her native country again, where she is most cordially 

 received by strangers as well as friends. But one of the num- 

 ber of her dear and most affectionate friends is fled. [The 

 writer then gives a very touching account of the death ot his 

 wife on the 8th of August preceding, after a distressing illness 

 of more than seven months, and proceeds.] I trust that this 

 sketch will serve to show that I have something whereon to 

 found an apology for not writing you before. 



" I have received your much esteemed favor of 24th August 

 last by the hand of your daughter. I most sensibly feel the 

 sentiments you have therein so tenderly expressed, and notwith- 

 standing all the regret and mortification which I suffer in conse- 



