Maria Edgeworth to Mrs Ruxton from Lausanne - copy in hand of Honora Edgeworth - tour round the Lake of Geneva - caleches - E. Dumont - Lausanne - reading French plays: 'Le faux savant' - Madame de Montolieu - Caroline de Lichtfield - Gibbon's courtship - anecdote of thunder - story of Madame de Crabz (Jacobi) - Les châteaux en Suisses - Viernon and M. and Madame Polier de Bottens - Vevay and the Bartons and Irish literature