Maria Edgeworth to Mrs Ruxton from Edinburgh - Dugald Stewart and family - Linlithgow - Edinburgh building - Abercrombie Place and the lodgings - visit to Alison - the evening with the Scotts - the Staffa boatman's singing - first impressions of Scott and his family - Lockhart - W. Clerk - sightseeing in Edinburgh (as in Sophy Edgeworth's letter, above) - statues in Parliament House - finding the Regalia - anecdote of George IV - the Alisons' dinner party - Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk - Mr Hope and Chantry - Alison's preaching - dinner with Scott - Thomson the painter - Allan's studio - Lockhart's books - Quentin Durward and its authorship