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In 1790 the family group was first broken by the death from consumption, at fifteen, of Honora, the beautiful only daughter of Mrs. Honora Edgeworth. MARIA EDGEWORTH to MRS. RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Feb. 11, 1790.
To MISS MARGARET RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Aug. 21, 1844.
Edgeworth advised the conclusion to be a Letter from Larry, the postillion: he wrote one, and she wrote another; he much preferred hers, which is the admirable finale to "The Absentee." MARIA EDGEWORTH to MISS MARGARET RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, July 20, 1812.
Hope Macaulay Visit to the Herschels: Sir Joshua Reynolds's work Rogers, Lord Mahon Death of the Duchess of Wellington Scene in the House of Lords Opera and plays. Letters from Edgeworthstown, Rostrevor, Pakenham Hall, Dunmoe Cottage, Lough Glyn, Trim to Captain Basil Hall, Mrs. L. Edgeworth, Miss Ruxton, Mrs. R. Butler, Mr. Bannatyne, C.S. Edgeworth, Mr. Pakenham Edgeworth, Mrs.
He could not travel with Lady Wellesley; he went by the mail. He had overstayed his leave a day. She travelled under the care of his brother, the clergyman. To MISS MARGARET RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, May 23, 1806. I have been laughed at most unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages round the library table for my impatience to send you The Mine.
Johnson, the bookseller, who was then imprisoned in the King's Bench for a publication which was considered to be treasonable, and they probably then and there arranged with him for the publication of CASTLE RACKRENT, for in January 1800, writing to her cousin, Miss Ruxton, Maria says, 'Will you tell me what means you have of getting parcels from London to Arundel, because I wish to send my aunt a few popular tales. . . . We have begged Johnson to send CASTLE RACKRENT, and hope it has reached you.
Two of the people he had never seen before, and the others consisted of Ernest Harrowden, one of those middle-aged mediocrities so common in London clubs who have no enemies, but are thoroughly disliked by their friends; Lady Ruxton, an over-dressed woman of forty-seven, with a hooked nose, who was always trying to get herself compromised, but was so peculiarly plain that to her great disappointment no one would ever believe anything against her; Mrs.
"Sir," said he to my father, "when you look at a map, do you know that the east is always on your right hand, and the west on your left?" "Yes," replied my father, with a very modest look, "I believe I do." "Well," said the man of learning, "that's one great point gained." To MRS. RUXTON.
We then went on to Malvern, where Mrs. MARIA to MRS. RUXTON. MALVERN LINKS, June 1813. How good you have been, my dear aunt, in sparing Sophy to Edgeworthstown, and since you have been so good it is in encroaching human nature to expect that you will be still better, and that you and my uncle and Mag will come to Edgeworthstown for her; we shall be home in a fortnight.
The Duchess sat at a round table working, and in the course of the evening the two eldest little boys ran in from an Ecole d'enseignement mutuel which they attended in the neighbourhood, with their schoolbooks in their hands, and some prizes they had gained, eager to display them to their mother. It was a happy, simple family party. MARIA to MRS. RUXTON. PARIS, July 1820.
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