' Life of Count Rumford. 649 



Asylum," " for the poor and needy, particularly young 

 females without mothers." The testator enjoined that 

 the children to be received into it should be exclusively 

 natives of Concord. The money bequest has ever since 

 been at interest, and in the year 1871 amounted to 

 about forty-nine thousand dollars. The Institution, 

 probably, will not be established and opened for some 

 five or six years, when it is hoped that the fund will 

 have so far increased as to support it. In case the town 

 of Concord should decline to receive, or should fail 

 to undertake and faithfully administer this trust, the 

 bequest was to revert "to Joseph Amedie Lefevre, 

 ' hereafter to be called Joseph Amedie Rumford, of 

 Paris, France, his heirs and assigns forever." To this 

 gentleman the Countess also bequeathed the sum of 

 ten thousand dollars. She also left a bequest of fifteen 

 thousand dollars, as a " Rumford Fund," to the New 

 Hampshire Asylum for the Insane. 



The Countess gave an oil portrait of her father, 

 taken with his insignia and decorations as a Knight and 

 a Count of the Empire, to Harvard College ; in one of 

 the halls of which it has since hung, among the por- 

 traits of the benefactors of that Institution. Besides 

 distributing her jewels and money legacies among many 

 friends, she left to Mr. Joseph B. Walker and his 

 family the following pictures : 



A portrait, in oil, of the Count, in the uniform of a 

 British officer, taken at the age of thirty in London. 



A portrait, in oil, by Kellerhofer, of the Count at 

 the time when he was sent as the Bavarian Ambassador 

 to London. 



A portrait, in oil, of the Countess Sarah. 



A portrait, in oil, cabinet size, of Captain Lefevre. 



