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now I must make one for writing more than I ought. But I 

 feel confident that your goodness will excuse both. I entreat 

 of you to write me at all opportunities, and tell me how you 

 progress in your new Institution. 



" Judge Blodget of Goffstown, N. H., whom you know, 

 and Dr. Hay, have both desired me to present their respects to 

 you. 



" I am, with the most unfeigned affection and esteem, my 

 dear Count, 



u Yours sincerely, 



"LOAMMI BALDWIN. 

 " BENJAMIN, Count of Rumford." 



" Memorandum for London, to the care of Count Rumford. 



"4 thermometers exactly corresponding with each other 

 through all the degrees of graduation, plainly mounted in 

 manner suited to endure in experiments where a pretty severe 

 heat is required ; the other two a little in the elegant style. 



" i mercurial barometer. 



" i ream of pretty large size lawn paper, thin and light, but 

 of a strong and compact fabric, suitable to make a balloon for 

 experiments in natural electricity. 



" Two or three crowns' worth of fine gold or silver wire for 

 to entwine about the flying line of an electrical kite or balloon ; 

 perhaps gold thread wire before it be flattened might answer. 



" Some of the best transparent liquor varnish for preserving 

 the brightness or polish of brass work, with directions for using 

 it ; say, to the amount in value of three or four crowns. 



" I good collar-mandrel for a turning-lathe, provided with 

 spiral threads or screws on the spindle of the whirl, for the 

 purpose of cutting screws in the lathe, of different combs, or 

 threads ; also the tools to be used in working the lathe for cut- 

 ting screws. 



11 I boiler of the most improved kind for cooking, of about 

 thirty gallons' capacity. 



" i boiler of abour ten or fifteen gallons, upon the Rumford 

 plan. 



