To Fanny Edgeworth from 31 Merrion Street - Bushe - The Norths - pension at Paris: better not to board with family - clothes for Paris trip - the Wests - Simpson the mathematician - Arabins - Robinson - Mrs House - Pallmers - Major Taylor - Nimmo - visits and shopping - trunks - Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Steam coach - steam packets - H. More's Moral Sketches - Madame de Staël - impropriety in Marmontel's works