Letters from Kenioge, Smethwick Grove, Wycombe Abbey, Gatcombe Park,
Easton Grey, Bowood, Clifton, Winchester, The Deepdene, Frognel,
Hampstead, Beechwood Park, Mardoaks to Mrs. Edgeworth, Miss Honora
Edgeworth, Miss Lucy Edgeworth, Mrs. Ruxton, Miss Ruxton.
Visits in England—Wycombe Abbey: Lord Carrington, Madame de Staël, and
Buonaparte—David Ricardo—Bowood: Lord Lansdowne, Bowles—Miss Joanna
Baillie's: Brodie, Dr. Holland, Lord Grenville—Anecdotes of Lady
Salisbury and Wilberforce—Le Bas, Sir James Macintosh, Dumont.
1822
Letters from London to Mrs. Edgeworth, Mrs. Ruxton.
Life in London—Frank—Lady Lansdowne, Lady Elizabeth Whitbread,
Calcott, Mrs. Somerville—Visit to the House of Commons: Peel, Brougham,
Vansittart—Mrs. Fry—Almack's—Dinners and parties: Sir Humphry Davy,
Dr. Holland, Miss Lydia White—Mrs. Siddons and Sheridan—Jeffrey, Hume,
Herschel, Lady Byron, Randolph—Ticknor on Maria Edgeworth's
conversation.
1822-1823
Letters from Edgeworthstown, Black Castle, Kinneil, Edinburgh,
Callander, Inverness, Kinross, Abbotsford to Mrs. Ruxton, Mrs. O'Beirne,
Miss Honora Edgeworth, Miss Lucy Edgeworth, Miss Ruxton, Mrs. Ruxton.
Return to Edgeworthstown—Literary work and reading: Early Lessons,
Harry and Lucy—Walter Scott and Joanna Baillie—Death of Lord
Londonderry—Visit to Scotland—Edinburgh: Evening at Sir Walter
Scott's—Sir Walter Scott, Lady Scott, and Lockhart—A fortnight at
Abbotsford.
1823-1830
Letters from Edgeworthstown, Pakenham Hall, Black Castle, Bloomfield to
Mrs. and Miss Ruxton, Mrs. Bannatyne, Mrs. O'Beirne, Miss Honora
Edgeworth, Mrs. Edgeworth, C.S. Edgeworth, Captain Basil Hall, Mr.
Bannatyne.