Excerpt from Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: With Notices of His Daughter In one of a series of letters with which I was favored by my much-esteemed friend, the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, - also my associate on the Council of the Academy, - during his last European tour, was a pas sage which I here copy. The letter was dated Munich, August 19, 1867. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.