34 2 Life of Count Rum ford. 



" 1 shall write you more fully, and I hope more satisfactorily, 

 in a few days. Give my love to the Countess, and tell her that 

 I thank her most sincerely for her successful endeavor in per- 

 suading her dear father to make' a visit to his native country. 

 We long for the time to come that we may see him here. We 

 rejoice to hear the resolution you have taken, and sincerely hope 

 no event will happen to prevent it. 



" I am, with much respect, my dear Count, 



11 Your most obedient and very humble -servant, 



"LOAMMI BALDWIN. 



" SIR BENJAMIN, Count Rumford." 



Colonel Baldwin, in a business letter, communicated 

 to Count Rumford ? s mother, now advanced far in 

 years, the prospect of seeing her son in his native coun- 

 try. She was then residing with her husband, in Flints- 

 town, Me. 



"WOBURN, AugUSt 23, 1798. 



" DEAR MADAM, I have just received instructions from 

 your son, the Count of Rumford, to draw on his agents, Sir 

 Robert Herries & Co., in London, for X3O sterling, it being 

 for the amoun't of his daughter Sarah's draft on Edward^Arm- 

 strong, Esq., his former agent, dated October 23, 1795, that 

 was protested, &c. Which bills, or the money therefor, to- 

 gether with another set, dated the 26th day of March last of 

 the same amount, are now ready to be delivered to you or your 

 order, agreeably to the provision your son has made. I hope 

 you will soon have a convenient opportunity to send for it, as I 

 know of none at present by which I can send to you. 



" I have lately received communications dated the ijth De- 

 cember, 1797, from the Count, upon various subjects, one of 

 which is respecting a visit to America that he with his daugh- 

 ter proposes to make in about fifteen or sixteen months from 

 the date of his letter, if peace shall be restored and the state of 

 affairs in Europe will admit of it, which he expects to be the 

 case. I pray God to grant it may be so. 



