William Edgeworth to Maria Edgeworth from Liverpool - wants Reports (? parliamentary) on bridges, canals, railroads, steamboats, gaslights and machines - asks introduction to Roscoes - Stephenson regrets William has worked in such remote places - Stephenson's rise due to his safety lamps, like Davy's - his civility to William who shewed him Richard Lovell Edgeworth's paper of 1802 on railroads - introduction to railway directors - Stephenson's son coming back from one of the American mines has had all the benefits of a liberal education - Irish in Liverpool - a French Théatre des arts