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safe conveyance. When you write to me you will be so good 

 as to address your letters to Count Rumford, aux soins de 

 Messrs. Delessert & Co., Rue Coqheron, a, Paris. Begging you 

 would remember me kindly to all those persons of your family 

 who remember me, I am, Dear Sir, with much esteem and 

 regard, 



" Your Obedient Servant, 



" RUMFORD. 

 "To MR. JAMES F. BALDWIN, Merchant in Boston." 



" AUTEUIL, near Paris, 15* Feb. 1812. 



"DEAR SIR, I took the liberty some weeks ago to write 

 to you and to transmit to you a Power of Attorney, authorising 

 you to receive the dividends on Ten Thousand dollars Three 

 per cent stock in the public funds of the United States, Having 

 since transferred by a deed of gift the whole of that stock to my 

 Dear Mother, for whose use I purchased it originally, your 

 power will of course cease to have effect, and you will give 

 yourself no further trouble in this business. It remains for me 

 to ask your pardon for the trouble I have already given you, 

 and to assure you of the sincere regard with which I remain 

 " Your ^Obedient Servant, 



" RUMFORD." 



This final arrangement of the Count in a provision 

 for his mother, which at the time was most generous 

 and ample, was the completion of his long-continued 

 care for her comfort. He had written to her soon after 

 his arrival in London, by date November i, 1795, 

 having, while in Bavaria, sent her annually the interest 

 of five hundred pounds sterling, that the principal 

 belonged to her. So he adds, " I have now come to 



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a resolution to transfer the property I have destined 

 for you into the American funds, and to send you 

 a power of attorney for receiving the interest regularly 

 at Boston. Or, if you please, I will transfer the capi- 



