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founders of the Institution did me the honor to put my name 

 at the head of the Tickets given to the poor authorizing them to 

 receive soup at the public kitchens. At Geneva they have done 

 still more to show me respect. They have marked their tickets 

 with a stamp on which my portrait and my name are engraved. 

 " I am not vain, my dear Sally, but it is utterly impossible 

 not to feel deeply affected at these distinguished marks of 

 honor conferred on me by nations at war with Great Britain, 

 and in countries where I have never been, or know little of the 

 inhabitants. But my greatest delight arises from the silent con- 

 templation of having succeeded in schemes and labors for the 

 benefit of mankind." 



The Count adds an expression of his hope that his 

 daughter shares with him that pleasure, and announces an 

 improvement of his health from his visit to Harrowgate. 



A series of twenty-two letters is passed over without 

 extracts, as their contents relate principally to the do- 

 mestic concerns of his daughter and to his American 

 friends. The Count writes often about the progress of 

 his house at Brompton, and the Royal Institution, and 

 he refers to the unpleasant intelligence he had received 

 of the French being in Munich. His excellent friend, 

 the Countess Nogarola, " whom he generally, for short- 

 ness, calls Mary," writes him word that the people of 

 Munich thought and spoke of him often under the 

 calamity of having an enemy among them. The experi- 

 ence called to mind the occasion when, a few years be- 

 fore, the Count having had the address to keep both an 

 Austrian and a French army out of the city, the people 

 had been profoundly grateful to him, expressing their 

 feeling in. various ways and by presents, many ladies 

 having painted pictures for him.* 



* Some of these, being views in water-colors of scenes in the English Garden at 

 Munich, are now in the possession of Mr. Joseph B. Walker, of Concord, N. H. 



