Maria Edgeworth to Mrs Edgeworth from Pregny - Fanny's health - Pictet and his family - Madame Pictet-Prevost - Madame Lullin and her family - M. and Madame Eynard, their house and carriage - Paris and Geneva society - M. Turrettini - Genevan constitution - Dumont and Prevost and open courts - Dumont's character - Dumont's anecdote of Madame de Staël and the Abbé Suard - Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth - new Swiss bishop - Madame Achard - Madame Pigott - Madame Charles de Constant - the Sismondis - the caleche - Von Hamel and Mont Blanc - visit to Decandolle - the Mexican Flora and its history