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this letter, draw a set of Bills of Exchange in your own name, on 

 the house of Sir Robert Merries & Co., Bankers, St. James 

 St., London, for Thirty Pounds sterling, at thirty days sight, 

 taking care to date this set of Bills the 26th of March, 1796 

 (my Birth Day). 



" I also request you would draw on the said Sir Robert 

 Herries & Co. (who are my agents in London, and who have 

 my directions to accept and pay these Bills) every succeeding 

 year, on the 26th of March, for the like sum of Thirty Pounds 

 sterling, for the same purpose, and apply it in the same manner* 

 that is to say, that you would pay it into the hands of my 

 dear Mother, which I desire she would receive as a small 

 token of my filial affection, and of my gratitude for all her 

 goodness to me. 



" In case of my Mother's death, it is my request that 

 the annual amount of this allowance may be equally divided 

 among my Mother's four children by her husband, Mr. Josiah 

 Pierce. 



" Begging you would excuse the liberty which I take with 

 you, and assuring you of my most sincere regard and esteem, I 

 remain, with unalterable affection, 



"Dear Sir, Yours most Sincerely, 



"" RUMFORD. 



"During my stay in England, I have published a volume of 

 Essays, which I have sent to you under cover to my friend, 

 Doctor Walter, of Boston. I wish they may meet with your 

 approbation. I do not despair of seeing you in America in the 

 course of a year or two. My Daughter, who is very well, 

 desires her best compliments to you and to Mrs. Baldwin. She 

 is just setting out with me for Germany. She does not seem 

 disposed to leave me, and I am delighted to have her with 

 me. 



"The HoN ble - COL. BALDWIN, Member of the Senate, &c. 

 Woburn, near Boston, Massachusetts." 



I am able to give Colonel Baldwin's reply. 



