To Fanny Wilson from Merrion Street - new beginning of book - Mr Strickland - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth - Charles Boddenham - Kirke's sculptures - Boddenham banking disaster - loss of fortune part of novel plot - Bishop of Cloyne (Brinkley) - death of Wollaston - Wollaston's desire to marry - Miss Sebright and Mrs Heber - dinner at Crampton's - Misses Trench - Crampton's imitation of Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Maria Edgeworth's dislike of going out without her family - Fanny W's interest in public affairs - Catholic emancipation - Rienzi - Nightmare Abbey - Heber's Journal