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tion with that country being impeded by the war. This 

 was a great discomfort to Rumford, and was doubtless 

 one cause of his restlessness, as he depended much on 

 constant friendly intercourse by scientific communica- 

 tions with a large number of correspondents. 



Another annoyance is indicated in the following 

 extract from a letter : " Aichner and his family have 

 returned to Munich. I was obliged to hire a place for 

 them some time before they went away. They did not 

 agree with Madame de Rumford's servants, though mine 

 were not in the least to blame, for never were there 

 more honest people than Aichner and his wife. It 

 would have been a great comfort to me to have kept 

 them to the end of my life." 



One of Aichner' s children, as before mentioned, bore 

 the names of the Count's daughter and of the Countess 

 Nogarola, Mary Sarah. This little girl Madame de 

 Rumford kept back, promising to provide for her. She 

 made good her promise, and in due time the girl was 

 married to a young French marchand, receiving from 

 her benefactress a marriage-portion of twenty thousand 

 francs. 



Indications of the grounds of variance between the 

 Count and his lady appear in a letter dated early in 

 1806. He writes that Madame is very fond of society, 

 especially that of agreeable, well-informed persons. 

 Her house, he says, " is frequented by several of the 

 cleverest people in Paris. She seldom goes out of an 

 evening, but her house is always open to her acquaint- 

 ance, and we pass few evenings without company. 

 [Sarah interpolates, "Just what the Count hated."] On 

 Mondays we have dinners of eight or nine, philoso- 

 phers, members of the National Institute; on Tuesday 



