To Mrs Ruxton - dislike to writing introductions for people not personally known - Madame de Staël's book

To Mrs Ruxton - garden - diary of Maria Edgeworth's day - Sismondi's Républiques Italiennes - Madame de Sévigné - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments - Frank. Sequel - Life of Wesley - the Queen's affairs - Sicilian politics - Memoirs of Lord Waldegrave - Memoirs of Horace Walpole - Byron and Pope - N.W. discovery not yet...

To Mrs Ruxton - Mrs Mordecai - Charlotte Sneyd's illness - Maria Edgeworth's eyesight - Orlando Furioso - Hooke's Essay on the means of improving natural philosophy - Madame de Sévigné - Letters of Madame de Villars - Memoirs of St Simon - Fleury's Memoirs of Napoleon - Lovell Edgeworth and his school - Life of Wesley - the Catholic...

To Mrs Ruxton - Hope, Anastasius - Count Orloff's History of Naples - Madame de Staël, Life of Necker - Mr Loch on Highland Clearances - Memoirs of Lord Haldegrave - Life of Pitt - death of A.N.C. Edelcrantz and retrospective comment on his proposal to Maria Edgeworth - Peggy Mulheeran and Michael the servant - kitchenmaid and her father - comments on the...

To Mrs Ruxton - Sir David and Lady Baird - Mrs Beaufort - death of Napoleon - Sir H. Lowe - Letters of Madame de Villars - immoral story of Mademoiselle Aissé - Madame de Charrière, Caliste - Mr Hill and Lovell Edgeworth's school

To Mrs Ruxton - fragment - a gutter - poor relief at Edgeworthstown

To Mrs Ruxton from Wycombe Abbey - Lord Carrington - Scott's verses on Pitt (Marmion) - Dr Lushington - Wilberforce - Abel Smith - Hales - Count and Countess Ludolf - Lady Yonge - Madame de Staël, Dix Années d'exil - Letters, 251

To Mrs Ruxton from Bowood - Lord Lansdome's foreign trip - Italy - Mr Ogden - Bowles the poet and his controversy with Byron - Caroline Fox and The Absentee - Letters, 280

To Mrs Ruxton from Frognell - The Lushingtons and their marriage - Dr Holland - The Pirate

To Mrs Ruxton from Kensington Gore - Lady E. Whitbread - Lady Grey - Charles and Lady Hannah Ellice - Don Juan - Dr Russell of Charterhouse - Frank - Mr Talbot - Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Mr Ralston - Letters, 333

To Mrs Ruxton - forthcoming visit to Black Castle of Mary Sneyd, Honora and Sophy Edgeworth - Mrs Beaufort and Louisa Beaufort - Elizabeth Waller's health - Fanny Stewart's letter from Canada - Charles (Sneyd) Edgeworth and wife in Switzerland - Baron Polier de Bottens and his Derbyshire wife - Lovell Edgeworth's health - Dr Holland's letter about Lord Londonderry's death and popular opinion - Lady E. Whitbread - Lucy Edgeworth's health - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth's holidays at an end - J....

To Mrs Ruxton - Francis Beaufort Edgeworth's play Catiline and its performance - Miss de Lally (Lansdowne governess) - The Spy

To Mrs Ruxton - gift of lamps and explanation of lighting

To Mrs Ruxton from Farnham: - week's visit - the Farnham's tenants and their cottages - resident landlords - James Saunderson - Basset Saunderson - Colonel Barry's resignation of his place - government measures in Ireland - auction at Ardbraccan - Mrs O'Beirne - the establishment at Farnham and its management - Mary Bristow - a school for farmers' daughters

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...

Maria Edgeworth to Mrs Ruxton - Roslyn Chapel and Castle - W. Scott - Lockhart - Sophy Lockhart - dinner at Craigcrook - F. Jeffrey and family

Maria Edgeworth to John Ruxton from Abbotsford - Sir Walter Scott - visitors at Abbotsford - tree planting - the Abbotsford neighbourhood - Ettrick Forest - Newark Tower - Rokeby and the Duchess of Buccleuch - The Lord of the Isles - the house at Abbotsford - the Scott family - the Allens - (end by Harriet Edgeworth) - Maria Edgeworth's recovery

To Mrs Ruxton from Edgeworthstown - return of Fanny Edgeworth from staying with Richard Ruxtons at Kingstown - M. Sneyd, William and Honora Edgeworth at Byrkley Lodge - the Edward Sneyds - Captain Beaufort at Liverpool - visit to Ireland of the 2 Emmeline Kings - Harriet Edgeworth's schoolhouse - Mrs Hemans' Siege of Valencia - Quin's Letters from Spain - article in Quarterly Review by Blanco White - Dr Holland...

To Mrs Ruxton from Edgeworthstown - a gown - a pasteboard tray - frills - spring cuffs

To Mrs Ruxton from Pakenham Hall - Mr Codd, a journalist - introductions to Mr Sedgewick, Horace Smith, R. Hunter - visit to Pakenham Hall - house alterations - Mrs Smyth of Gaybrook - Mr Knox - Lovell Edgeworth - the Lambert boys - lies about the school - Beaupark - Bishop Alexander - dilapidations at Ardbraccan - the gown - scarlattinis (?slippers) - St Ronan's Well