CHAPTER IX. 



Countess Rumford in America. Correspondence. Letters 

 from her Father. Their Fate. Friendship and Let- 

 ters of Sir Charles Blagden. His Report of the Count's 

 Matrimonial Purposes. His Confidential Correspondence. 



Information concerning Count Rumford. Breach of 

 Intercourse. The Count at Munich and Paris. His 

 Tour with Madame Lavoisier. Sarah's Account and 

 Description of her Father. His Letters from England 

 and Bavaria. He writes to his Daughter of his In- 

 tended Marriage, and sends for Legal Documents. His 

 Marriage to Madame Lavoisier. Happy Prospects. 

 Letters from Colonel Baldwin. Letter from Sir Charles 

 Elagden. Unhappiness of the Count in his Marriage. 



His- Letters continued. Separates from his Wife. 

 Sarah's Explanation. The Count sends for his Daugh- 

 ter. His Letters while awaiting her Arrival. His 

 Visit to Munich and Welcome Reception. Monsieur 

 Guizot's Memoir of Madame de Rumford. Tribute to 

 her by the Comtesse de Bassanville. 



IN giving as full and accurate an account as is possible 

 of the events and the labors of Count Rumford's 

 life, from his leaving England for the last time till his 

 death, I shall be indebted chiefly for my materials to 

 papers left by his daughter. These will be found to 

 have a curious, and in many respects a painful interest, 

 as they give in such detail the particulars of a new 

 domestic relation formed by him, which promised him 



