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friends at Baldwin [Maine], and should like to know how they 

 all do. 



11 1 perceive by one of the letters I mentioned to have found 

 at Auteuil that your sister Clarissa is married. You will give 

 my love to her, if you please, and tell her I hope she is well 

 and happy. And with desiring my compliments to all your 

 friends and connections, believe me, with sincere friendship, 



" Yours truly, 



"S. RUMFORD. 



"P. S. I forgot to ask you if the money left with Mr. 

 Hancock be safe, and going on well. You will continue to 

 direct to the care of Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, & Co., if you 

 please." 



After having fixed upon many successive dates for 

 going to Paris, and finding herself unable to leave 

 Brompton, she at last went to Paris in 1820, and re- 

 mained there three years under the protection of Baron 

 Delessert and Sir Charles*. The latter was himself 

 almost all the time from the Count's death to his own 

 away from England, and generally resident in Paris, 

 making, however, two visits there, in 1817 and 1819, 

 when he was the guest of the Countess. He had be- 

 come infirm and gouty, but he seems to have been 

 made welcome. The package of his letters which the 

 Countess left inscribed " From my much lamented 

 and respected friend, Sir Charles Blagden," includes 

 the summons which she received to attend his funeral 

 rites in the Church of the Oratoire in Paris, he having 

 died in that city, March 26, 1820. 



The letters begin with one dated in Paris, August 15, 

 1815, and through the whole series their contents are 

 divided between references to her troubles about her 

 house and particulars concerning Madame de Rum- 

 ford. 



