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 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…

Harriet Edgeworth to Harriet Beaufort - Sophy Edgeworth's marriage

Harriet Edgeworth to Harriet Beaufort - delight in Harriet Beaufort's story The Little White Hen - Harriet Edgeworth now has the Scott novels as well as the poems

To Louisa Beaufort from Sittingbourne - Welsh journey - Wolverhampton and the Black Country - Warwick Castle - Oxford - luggage - (continued from Dover) - Canterbury and its architecture

Harriet Edgeworth to Louisa Beaufort from 93 Place Bourbon - description of lodgings - Place Bourbon - journey from Calais - postillions and post horses - Rodolphe the servant

Harriet Edgeworth to Louisa Beaufort - view from Pont Louis XVI - weather - plants - people in Paris - talking - violence of party politics - different fashions for different shades of opinion - the sappers - architecture - Madame de Roquefeuil - Madame d'Antichamp - royalists - musical prodigy - French acting - 'Marie Stuart' - 'Le confident par hasard', 'L'avare', 'Jeanne d'Arc', 'Louis IX' - Madame Pastoret - Madame Gautier - F. Delessert - Madame de Vindé - Madame Récamier and her guests…

Harriet Edgeworth to Louisa Beaufort from Pregny - visit to the Marcets - sight seeing in Geneva - Arago and Pictet - Dumont - Madame Pigott - Revd Dr Longley - the Otway Caves - Library at Geneva - the Promotions - Mrs Marcet - Chamouny tour - inn at Bonneville - St Martin - the Aragos - char a banc - Glacier de Boisson

Harriet Edgeworth to Louisa Beaufort from Paris - Madame de Roquefeuil and Madame de Calan - Versailles - birth of Duc de Bordeaux - Gérard's picture of Corinne - Madame de Staël and her escapes - Miss Randall's escape - Mademoiselle Mars in 'Le jaloux sans amour' - 'La jeunesse d'Henri V' - Duchesse d'Usez - Madame de la Briche - Madame de St Aulaire - Comte de Ségur and animal magnetism - anecdote of murder

To Louisa Beaufort from Salisbury - Salisbury cathedral and 'views' in Dodsworth and Britton - the Clutterbucks - Major Macan - Dr Fowler and his house - Mrs Fowler and love of animals - Stonehenge - Wilton - Arundel marbles - Lady Pembroke - Wolsey's tower (the inside has been Wyatted) - Count Michael Woronzow - Fisher, bishop of Salisbury - Trafalgar - Lord Nelson 'universally disliked and despised' - a picture called 'Duke of Alva' - Longford Castle and Lord Radnor - company at Dr…

To Louisa Beaufort from 4 Montague Place - Mr Cohen on architecture - differences between English and French Gothic - their origins - building records of St Edmunds - Cohen - the Katers - models and drawings of Paestum at Mrs Somerville's house

To Louisa Beaufort - Mr Cohen and Gothic architecture - Cotman, Norman Architecture - Anderson, Agricultural Recreations - Westminster Abbey - Bankes - Cohen's article on Norman Architecture in Quarterly Review - Mrs Napier - camellias

Harriet Edgeworth to Louisa Beaufort - visit of Lord Dillon - Mr Strickland - Miss Browne - Lord Dillon's life in Florence - Lovell Edgeworth's school - Lord Dillon's family history and anecdotes