Jared Sparks
Published: 2018-03-21
Total Pages: 428
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Excerpt from The Library of American Biography, Vol. 5 With the exception of his own works, the materials for a biography of Com Ransom) are scanty. The only accessible printed documents that have been found are, the Eloge of Cu vier, the Inaugural Address of Professor Bige low, and a memoir in the Literary Miscellany, published at Cambridge, in the years 1805 and 1806. In addition to these materials, the author has been furnished with manuscript Outlines of the Family, Infancy, and Childhood of Ben jamin Thompson, Count of Rumford, by his half brother, Josiah Pierce, late of Baldwin, Maine; with copies of a part of his correspondence with Colonel Loammi Baldwin; and with several letters written by himself, together with a few memo randa and accounts relating to his earlier years. For these papers he has been indebted to the kindness of Mr. James F. Baldwin, of Boston, and Mr. Josiah Pierce, of Gorham, Maine. They relate chiefly to the events which occurred be fore Rumford left America. In regard to subse. 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.