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could conveniently call or send for me on Wednesday next, I 

 think upon the whole I should like to go. If you can call to 

 see me before that time, and can bring Miss Clarissa [Miss 

 Baldwin], I should be gratified, for I want to see her very 

 much. I never knew till I read the letter you was so kind as 

 to leave me yesterday, that you had a little son.* I feel quite 

 impatient to see him, and if you could contrive to bring him 

 with Clarissa I should be very glad. 

 " Believe me with much respect, 



" Your much obliged 



"SARAH RUMFORD." 



Count Rumford's stepfather, Mr. Josiah Pierce, had 

 died in August, 1798. 



The letter that follows from Colonel Baldwin to the 

 Countess was probably addressed to her while she was 

 residing in apartments in Boston : 



" WOBURN, September 27, 1800. 



" MY DEAR COUNTESS, Yours by the stage, I received 

 yesterday. Your grandmamma arrived at my house last Saturday 

 in good health, and tarried with us until Monday, when she 

 went to her sister Simonds, perhaps to visit her relations in 

 Woburn, and then to go to Boston. Perhaps you may see her 

 the beginning of next week. Miss Clarissa skipped upon read- 

 ing your kind invitation to make a visit just as her brother 

 Cyrus was setting out for Boston this morning in a sulky. The 

 scheme was started for her to go with him, and the experiment 

 to see if she could ride in that way was made. The result was 



* This, now the only surviving son of Colonel Baldwin, is George Rumford Bald- 

 win, Esq., of Woburn, Massachusetts, who, with the genius and skill characteristic 

 of his family, is one of the most eminent engineers in the United States ; his father 

 having planned and engineered the Middlesex Canal 5 his brother Loammi having 

 constructed the United States naval dry docks at Charlestown, Massachusetts, and 

 Norfolk, Virginia ; and his brother James F. having given his science to the Co- 

 chituate Water- Works of Boston. The present representative of the family was 

 the engineer of the water- works of Quebec, Canada, and of Charlestown, Massa- 

 chusetts. 



