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pend on herself. The best advice I can give her she will not 

 fail to receive. 



" I was happy to learn that you are so busily employed in 

 schemes of public utility. Our juvenile pursuits and our amuse- 

 ments were always the same, and we have neither of us any 

 reason to complain of the frowns of fortune. 



" I am, my Dear Sir, with unalterable Esteem, 

 " Yours Affectionately, 



" RUMFORD. 

 " The Hon b . le LOAMMI BALDWIN, 



Woburn, near Boston." 

 (" Received at Boston Post- Office, June 10, 1797.") 



The above indorsement on this letter, indicating the 

 lapse of nearly four months between its date and its 

 receipt, is an indication of the difficulties and delays 

 attending transatlantic correspondence when the ocean 

 and the land were the scenes of revolutionary struggles. 



Under the same date the Count addressed the follow- 

 ing letter to President Willard, of Harvard College. 



"MUNICH, 1 5th February, 1797. 



" Being charged by my daughter to forward to you the en- 

 closed letter, I cannot help adding a line, to return you my 

 sincere thanks for your very friendly letter. I ought, perhaps, 

 at the same time to ask your pardon for the liberty I have 

 taken in sending, under cover to Mr. Pearson [Prof. Pearson 

 was then Corresponding Secretary of the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences], a power of attorney to you and my friend 

 Col. Baldwin, authorising you to make a transfer for me of 

 five thousand dollars American three per cent Stock to the 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



" I feel myself highly flattered by the approbation you are 

 pleased to express of my Essays. It has ever been my most 

 ardent wish to be of some use to mankind, to be able to flatter 



