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my stay here has been of some use to him. I avoid most 

 carefully every appearance of interfering in public business, 

 but I now and then find opportunities of putting in a word 

 privately where it is not lost. I fancy the Elector will be 

 well treated in the general arrangement which is about to 

 take place. 



I thank you for the information you have given me re- 

 lative to the Royal Institution. It is impossible for me not 

 to feel very deeply interested in its fate. I hope it will 

 prosper ; I know it will if you can support and protect it. 

 It would grieve me to see it fall to the ground. My health 

 is much improved since I have been in France. I am, in- 

 deed, now quite well. I continue to spend my time here very 

 agreeably. If there should be anything I could do for you 

 here, I hope and trust that you will have no scruples in 

 favouring me with your commands. 



I am, and shall ever be, my dear Sir Joseph, with un- 

 alterable attachment, yours most faithfully, 



EUMFORD. 



On August 10, Tuesday, Sir C. Blagden writes : C I am 

 on the point of setting out with Count Eumford for 

 Munich. We go first to Mannheim, and I expect to be 

 there next Sunday ; afterwards, perhaps, through that 

 tract of country bordering on Switzerland which will 

 be ceded to the Elector as a compensation, so as to 

 reach Munich about the latter end of this month.' 



On August 30, from Munich, Sir C. Blagden wrote 

 to Sir Joseph Banks : 



I wrote to you from Paris on the day of our departure, 

 and left the letter to be sent by post next day. Our journey 

 hither was made during the hottest time of this summer ; 

 we had the thermometer in the carriage one day at 93, 

 and several days within a degree or two of it ; but this great 



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