To Fanny Edgeworth from Edgeworthstown - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth - Mr Creed - Cecilia Edgeworth - descent in diving bell - Scott's Life of Napoleon

To Fanny fragment - Stricklands

To Fanny Wilson from Edgeworthstown - Mrs Edgeworth's damaged leg - minor family news - 'sorting - burning - labelling tying up with Ho's red tape all this last year's letters' - Tales of my grandfather

To Fanny Wilson from Edgeworthstown - Journal of Science - Mrs Edgeworth's leg - Lord Carrington - Basil Hall - politics - (end by Harriet Butler) - Lucy Edgeworth and school - the de Salis family

To Fanny Wilson - Crampton - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth and his 'Agamemnom' - politics - O'Connell

To Fanny Wilson - (Michael) Pakenham Edgeworth's entry at Haileybury - politics

To Fanny Wilson from Bloomfield - manuscript of Maria Edgeworth's book - politics - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth and his shiftlessness

To Fanny Wilson from Merrion Street - new beginning of book - Mr Strickland - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth - Charles Boddenham - Kirke's sculptures - Boddenham banking disaster - loss of fortune part of novel plot - Bishop of Cloyne (Brinkley) - death of Wollaston - Wollaston's desire to marry - Miss Sebright and Mrs Heber - dinner at Crampton's - Misses Trench - Crampton's imitation of Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Maria Edgeworth's dislike of going out without her family - Fanny W's interest in…

To Fanny Wilson - Strickland - visit to Bank of Ireland - Mr Oldham - visit to Dublin nunnery - Mr Bodenham - Miss Bodenham's literary conversation and her music

To Fanny Wilson from Edgeworthstown - Lestock Wilson's sisters - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth - Burke - Bessy Holland - politics

To Fanny Wilson from Edgeworthstown - drawings - for Castle Rackrent - franking - Hungarian Tales

To Fanny Wilson from E'towm - Duke of Wellington's duel - fighting of duels by ministers - Strickland - Miss Bodenham - The Anglo-Irish (Banim) - The Keepsake - Sir W. Scott

To Fanny Wilson from Edgeworthstown - trust estate - building cottages at Edgeworthstown - Mr Bell architect buying timbers and slates for them in Dublin - clothes - tenants - Catholic Emancipation - Abbé Langan - Lovell Edgeworth and Sir G. Fetherstone as the two non-sectarian JPs in County Longford - tithes - Mr Sadler and his speech in parliament - Langan's account of Dieppe- - English society in Dieppe - Duchesse de Berry - health of William Edgeworth - Captain Ross's polar expedition -…

To Fanny Wilson - Mr Carr's death and his family - William Edgeworth - garden

To Fanny Wilson from Edgeworthstown - birth of Charlotte Fox - peony - William Edgeworth

To Fanny Wilson - death of William Edgeworth - his bad health and professional disappointments - his will - Sophy Fox's baby

To Fanny Wilson - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth - Sophy and Charlotte Fox

To Fanny Wilson from Edgeworthstown - Maria Edgeworth's character - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth and his manuscript - (Michael) Pakenham Edgeworth - Malthus - Maria Edgeworth's novel - 100 pages torn up - shopping

To Fanny Wilson from Edgeworthstown - Lady Lansdowne - Mrs Hope - Duchess of Northumberland and Irish manners at a subscription party - Miss Douglas - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth's poem - Anne of Geierstein - cure for rheumatism - (Michael) Pakenham Edgeworth - William Beaufort Junior - non-receipt of Madame Belloc's books - Mrs Hall's book (Sketches of Irish character) - Honor Delany - shaddock and cocoanut

To Fanny Wilson from Edgeworthstown - investment in rail shares