CHAPTER V. 



Count Rumford' s Family in America. Correspondence with 

 Baldwin resumed. He sends for his Daughter. Cor- 

 respondence of Sally Thompson. Friendship of President 

 Willard of Harvard College. Thompson s Provision for 

 his Mother. Sends over his Essays. Intention to visit 

 America. Autobiography of his Daughter. Extracts. 



Her Voyage. Her Life in London. Reception of 

 his Essays. His Employments in England. Improved 

 Fireplaces. Popularity of his Plans. Rumford Roast- 

 ers. Endowment of Royal Society and American Acad- 

 emy. Correspondence with Sir Joseph Banks. Awards 

 of Rumford Medal by the Royal Society. Correspondence 

 with American Academy. Recognition by the Academy. 



The Rumford Fund. Action of the Legislature, and 

 of the Supreme Court in Equity upon the Fund, and its 

 Application, Awards of the Rumford Medal by the 

 Academy. 



IT is pleasant to be able, at this point, to introduce 

 an episode in this narrative directly connecting the 

 now famous Count Rumford with the country of his 

 birth, where he had been known as Benjamin Thomp- 

 son, and with those who survived here of his kindred 

 and early friends. I have been fortunate in the collec- 

 tion, from various sources, of materials to illustrate and 

 to give even a lively interest to this portion of the 

 narrative. The labors to which Rumford had devoted 



