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Maria Edgeworth to Lady Elizabeth Whitbread: reply to W1/6001/2. Two sheets and cover.

26 September [1819]

From: 1819 To: 1819

Rejoices at Lady Elizabeth's long stay at Lady Hannah Ellice's. Is now preparing arrangements for going abroad. Has finished writing Memoirs of father [Richard Lovell Edgeworth] but shall keep them some months longer for purpose of calm revisal. The Carrs have been this month in Ireland, Mr C detained in Dublin, Mr & Miss Carr spent short week with them. They flatter theirselves they will make a good report of them and their bogs as shall persuade Lady Elizabeth as far as the center of Ireland - indeed it seems now to be a quieter place than the center of England - no offence to any but the Manchester rioters. Honora [ME's stepsister] much gratified by Mr S Whitbread's kindness in going to Byrkley Lodge to see her - She and two Aunt Sneyds return next month. They have been in Staffordshire at races which terminated as we see in papers, by overture of Lord Gower and the father in law elect of his pretty sister. Hopes she is not marrying for a coach and six or a picture gallery. Much pleased with Mrs. Brunston's novel of Emmaline. Sends love to Miss Grant, earnestly recommend to her a book called Dialogues on Botany.

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Whitbread, Elizabeth,
Edgeworth, Maria,
Ellice, Hannah,
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell,
Carr,
Edgeworth, Honora,
Whitbread, Samuel Charles,
Brunston,
Grant, Julia

Manchester, Staffordshire, books