To Fanny Wilson from Trim - Horner's Life - Lady Lansdowne - caoutchouc machinery - R. Butler's lack of taste for mechanics - to Maria Edgeworth this is wanting a sense - lack of time in London - subscription for H. Martineau and her refusal of pension - Emmeline Gibbons - Lucy Edgeworth and the Robinsons - Lady (Arthur) Dillon - Sir A. Dillon and his education - Lismullen - the Creeds - unbookish people