To Mrs Ruxton from Edgeworthstown - birthday letter - Sophy Ruxton's illness - biographical sketch of Dugald Stewart - Cuvier's life of Cavendish in Jamieson's Philosophical Journal (from Cuvier's's Eloges - Blue Stocking Hall - Fanny W's housekeeping - Anatomical Gazette - Abbé Langan - Mr Sadler and his speech in Parliament - Count Lynch and Catholic Emancipation