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ment forgot the excellent portrait of the Count, the gift 

 of his daughter, which hangs in Massachusetts Hall, 

 Cambridge.] There ought to be a statue of him some- 

 where in America. I am glad to find that there is to 

 be one here. At the foundry here, a day or two since, 

 I found them actually engaged in casting one to adorn 

 one of the squares of Munich. This foundry itself 

 is a most interesting place to Americans. The mu- 

 seum connected with it contains the original models 

 of all the statues which have been cast here. There I 

 found .... But, after all, I think the Rumford statue 

 gave me the greatest satisfaction. It is a tardy act 

 of justice to one who did really great -things for the 

 world, as well as for Bavaria. His Essays on Pauper- 

 ism, and his plans for its relief and prevention, would 

 alone entitle him to the blessing of mankind. Almost 

 everything which is valuable in our modern systems 

 of charity may be traced in his 4 writings. When we 

 add all that he did for science, and for the advance- 

 ment of science, at the Royal Institution in London, 

 and at Harvard, and at our American Academy, his 

 claim to a statue seems to be far less equivocal, to 

 say the least, than that of many of those who have 

 lately received such commemoration. I trust we shall 

 have a portrait of him, one of these days, in the gallery 

 of our Historical Society, if nowhere else." 



As I could not have a more fitting introduction to 

 this volume than is found in that most just tribute 

 to Count Rumford, so admirably expressed, so I most 



