To Honora Beaufort from Edgeworthstown - her gift to Francis Beaufort Edgeworth's children for the poor - American help and the Famine - erroneous idea of Charles (Sneyd) Edgeworth's gift - public works interfering with tilling the peasants' own land - used for supply of seed - incentives to to tilling land and avoidance of fraud - Mr Pakenham's gift to the poor - Duval's Life - a violet tree