Fanny Edgeworth to Elizabeth Waller (Aunt Bess) from Florence - conversation on weather - New Year gaiety after end of mourning for Grand Duke - numbers of English at Florence - Florentines affect English manners and dress - music - the Allotts - Pictures - deterioration of Madonna della Seggiola - Lady Morgan's Salvator Rosa - her enemies on the Continent - church sightseeing - Carnival - Marianne Hamilton - Fanny Stewart in Canada - alarmists in Dublin but it is now likely to prosper because of injection of English capital - Mary Sneyd and her relatives - English residents in Florence - dancing in Florence - arrest of O' Connell