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satisfaction to me to know it. Would you be so obliging as to 

 let me know, by a line, if she be there ? 



" I remain your much obliged friend, 



"S. RUMFORD. 

 " HON. LOAMMI BALDWIN." 



The following letter was written by the Countess 

 while she was on a visit to the house of General 

 Knox, Washington's Secretary of War, at Thomas- 

 ton, Maine. 



"THOMASTON, St. George's River, July 12, 1802. 



" DEAR SIR, I hope you will write to my father this sum- 

 mer. Before I left Boston I received a very charming letter 

 from him. He was then in London, but expected in May to 

 set out again for Germany. You may recollect that he has 

 already been once to Germany since I saw him. Adieu, my 

 dear sir ; remember me kindly to all friends at Woburn, and 

 believe me to be your very much obliged and sincere friend, 



"S. RUMFORD. 



" COLONEL LOAMMI BALDWIN." 



It may interest some readers to have the daughter's 

 account and views of her father's second marriage and 

 its unhappy consequences, as she presents them in ex- 

 tracts from his letters to her, and from her own obser- 

 vation after she had joined him in France. She says 

 that after his rejection as Minister, " his first bold, im- 

 prudent step, completing his many vexations," was this 

 marriage. Though the lady herself was truly respect- 

 able, and worth more than three millions of francs, the 

 union proved so little to the Count's honor or happi- 

 ness, that Baron Cuvier in his Eloge made no mention 

 of it. The causes of their disagreements, she says, 

 were many and various, yet the marriage was entered 

 into under such favorable auspices, it was surprising 

 that it should have resulted so unhappily. Every friend 



