

1805. JET. 52.] COUNT RUMFORD. 91 



Dr. Ellis, the biographer of Eumford, says : 



An interval, though a very brief one, of cheerfulness and 

 satisfaction was enjoyed by the Count after his marriage. 

 There were but two letters to his daughter recognising 

 this state of content and pleasant anticipation. He informed 

 her that he left Munich under the pleasantest relations with 

 the Bavarian sovereign and his friends at that Court. He 

 had received a letter from Maximilian, congratulating him 

 on his marriage and approving of his settling himself in 

 France, and at the same time adding four thousand florins 

 a year to his pay. 



One letter was dated from Paris, December 20, 1805, 

 two months after his marriage : 



I gave up my lodgings on quitting Munich, and managed 

 so as to settle all concerns of business. I flatter myself I 

 am settled down here for life, far removed from wars and 

 all arduous duties, as a recompense for past services, with 

 plenty to live upon and at liberty to pursue my own natural 

 propensities, such as have occupied me through life a life, 

 as I try to fancy, that may come under the denomination 

 of a benefit to mankind. 



Next spring we are going to travel into Italy and the 

 south of France, to be gone two years, so you must 

 patiently stay where you are for the present. 



You will wish to know what sort of a place we live in. 

 The house is rather an old-fashioned concern, but in a plot 

 of over two acres of land, in the very centre and finest part 

 of Paris, near the Champs Elysees and the Tuileries and 

 principal boulevards. I have already made great alter- 

 ations in our place, and shall do a vast deal more. When 

 these are done I think Madame de Rumford will find it in 

 a very different condition from that in which it was, that 

 being very pitiful with all her riches. 



Our style of living is really magnificent. Madame is 

 exceedingly fond of company, and makes a splendid figure in 



