To Harriet Beaufort from Kensington Gore - Harriet Beaufort's Dialogues on Botany and anonymity - Mardocks - Sir J. Mackintosh - manners of argument between Maria Edgeworth and Sir J. Mackintosh - Hertford College - T.R. Malthus and family - Lady E. Whitbread - Julia Grant - John and Lady Louisa Lambton - Mr Ward - Playfair's Dissertation on the Progress of Science compared to D. Stewart's …

To Harriet Beaufort - Maria Edgeworth's more youthful appearance - the Ricardos - Wilkinson and Cromwell's head - Mrs Weddell and her pictures - exhibition of drawings in Soho - Mrs Scott of Danesfield - Mrs Primate Stuart - Belzoni's tomb - the Laplanders - Lansdowne House - Lady Holland - Maria Edgeworth not to be introduced to her - Sir J. Mackintosh - Duke of Hamilton - Lord Grey - Lady Harrowby - Mr Kennedy - Lady S. FitzGerald - Talma - Life of Pitt

To Harriet Beaufort - 'to go to Greenwich with Dr Wollaston with whom we have had some very pleasant drives' - the Mint and Mr Barton - watered effects - Lady Gwydir - Count Posso - Gwydir House - Sir J. Swinburne and family - R. Hebes - the King's Library - Bigge - Morritt - Beale - Hall - Mrs Haldimand - Mr Taylor and his volume of good stories - George Haldimand - the Lefevres - Lady Londonderry's party - the Esterhazys - the Hopes - Miss Burrowes - Wellington and his portraits - Duchess…

To Mrs Ruxton - Devonshire House - M. d'Haussonville and wife, the latter sitting doing nothing at her lodgings - contrast with signs of occupation in Lady de Ros's drawing room - M. de Staël and Duc de Broglie - Ricardo - Sydney Smith - Lady Mary Bennet - Mr Sotheby - Rogers - Spring Rice - Bowles - Wilberforce

Harriet Edgeworth to Elizabeth Waller from Lyons - (copy in hand of Honora Edgeworth) - customs house at Bellegarde - journey back to France - disappointment at Lyons (continued 28 Oct from Paris) - Arnas - St Symphonien - St Imbert - Briare - anecdote of Napoleon - the Paris lodgings

To Elizabeth Waller - Troughton the mathematical instrument maker - Mrs Blencowe (Pen Robinson) - Mrs Lushington - Lady Byron - Dr Lushington - Lord Glenbervie's - Mrs Blake's ball - the Hibernian Ball - Sydney Smith - Brougham and W.R. Spencer - British Gallery - Lady Jersey's party - nicknames, Lord Grey, the Erl King and Lady Jersey, the Beauty of Politics - M. de Staël and the Duc de Broglie

Richard Butler to Harriet Edgeworth - marriage proposal

Richard Butler to Harriet Edgeworth from Dublin - buying a chaise - marriage and honeymoon - Faustus at the theatre

Mary Sneyd to Harriet Butler - gift of money for her visit to England

Harriet Butler to Isabella Macpherson or ? Craig - Maria Edgeworth's health - Horner's Memoirs - 'the vividness with which she lives in the books which she likes is perfectly delightful and the variety of styles which amuse or touch or gratify her, makes what appears the most monotonous life in the world, without seeing any variety of people - full of new ideas and sources of interest for every hour - she has more than anyone else the union of ineffaceable memory…

Harriet Edgeworth's trousseau

Notes on a conversation (Harriet Butler's hand)

Copy by H.J. Butler of description of Harriet Edgeworth by Mary Beddoes

Includes letters: (fols. 1-10) from Francis Beaufort Edgeworth, 1822-1826 (fols. 11-49) to Lucy, 1821-1823 (fols. 50-110c) to Harriet Beaufort, 1820-1825 (fols. 111-145) to Louisa Beaufort, 1820-1822 (fols. 159-169) to Mrs. Margaret Ruxton, 1820-1822 (fols. 178-181) to Harriet from her husband, Richard Butler, 1816,…

To Harriet Beaufort - James Reilly, schoolbook by H. Beaufort - F. Beaufort's comment on it and relation to Lovell Edgeworth's schools - Drury Lane - 'Romeo and Juliet' - 'Giovanni in London' - Mrs Kater's - the moon through a telescope - Miss Fox - Lady Selkirk - Mrs Marcet's - F. Jeffrey - Canning's speech - Dr Marcet - Sir Ashley Cooper - T.R. Malthus - Miss Prinsep - visit to Lady Selkirk - Valerius - Harrow School - the Butlers -…

To Harriet Beaufort - expedition to Portsmouth with Francis Beaufort and Francis Beaufort Edgeworth - The Fortunes of Nigel - Block machinery - Isle of Wight

Harriet Edgeworth to Harriet Beaufort from Edinburgh - W. Scott - young W. Scott - the Alisons - the Skenes - the Old Town (Cowgate) - D. Wilkie - dinner with F. Jeffrey en famille - Lady Helen Hall - the Dugald Stewarts - Edinburgh society compared with Paris and London - the Gibson Craigs - Miss Young - the Museum

Harriet Edgeworth to Harriet Beaufort - the Highland tour - Fern Tower - the Bairds - dredging machine - Maria Edgeworth's illness - Abbotsford - homesickness - Sir W. Scott - armoury at Abbotsford - Lady Scott - Charles Scott

Harriet Edgeworth to Harriet Beaufort from Dalquharran - visit to Bowhill with Scott - Scott's dog - Thomas the Rhymer's glen - the Bucks Head inn at Glasgow - the Bannatynes - singeing muslin - Hart the ingenious pastrycook - unfavourable view of Glasgow society - voyage to Greenock - Dalquharran and the Kennedys

Harriet Edgeworth to Harriet Beaufort - Lucy Edgeworth ill in the Cabinet which used to be the schoolroom full of laughing and nonsense - reading early Scott novels to her - general dislike of St Ronan's Well except by Maria Edgeworth - Erskine's book - Letters on Prejudice - Miss Kennedy - 'I should hardly suspect you of sainting' - battledore and shuttlecock - Recollections of the Peninsula - Mr Lambert and Mr Whitney and their…