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Other relics there are of course, but, as I say, none which touch one so vividly. In the MEMOIRS of Miss Edgeworth there is a pretty account of her sudden burst of feeling when this passage so unexpected, and so deeply felt by her, was read out by one of her sisters, at a time when Maria lay weak and recovering from illness in Edgeworthstown.
Her sailor son is going to publish a Journal of a Tour, including the United States and Niagara. To C.S. EDGEWORTH. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, April 12, 1827. Now I have done all my agent business, I will tell you what Mr. Hope, in a letter I had from him this morning, says of Almack's. "It might have been a pretty thing, but I think it but a poor one. Of all slangs, that of fashion is easiest overdone.
I tell it to you in the very words in which it was told to me by Sneyd, who had it from Councillor Cummin. A man was certainly killed by the lightning near Finac, for the said councillor was knocked up at six o'clock in the morning, to know if there was to be a coroner's inquest. To MRS. RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Aug. 30, 1811. The scene is in Ireland, and the title "The Absentee."
Edgeworth supposed, from the warm moisture of the hand, but depended upon the manner in which they were placed. To MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, April 1808. We have just had a charming letter from Mrs. Barbauld, in which she asks if we have read Marmion, Mr. Scott's new poem: we have not. I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does.
Miss Edgeworth's steadiness in resting her eyes, neither reading nor writing for nearly two years, was rewarded by their complete recovery; and she was able to read, write, and work with ease and comfort all the rest of her life. MARIA to MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Jan. 1, 1820.
Maria Edgeworth always a little body was conspicuous among her schoolfellows for quick wit, and was apt alike for study and invention. She was story-teller general to the community. In 1782, at the age of fifteen, she left school and went home with her father and his third wife, who then settled finally at Edgeworthstown.
EDGEWORTHSTOWN, March 25, 1805. To-morrow we all, viz. Mr. Edgeworth, two Miss Sneyds, and Miss Harriet Beaufort, and Miss Fanny Brown, and Miss Maria, and Miss Charlotte, and Miss Honora, and Mr.
Ruxton, the intimate friend and correspondent of forty-two years, whose home, Black Castle, was within a long drive of Edgeworthstown. Mrs. Ruxton's three children Richard, Sophy, and Margaret were Maria Edgeworth's dearest companions and friends. The great love which Miss Edgeworth always felt for children was tried and developed to its fullest extent in the ever increasing family circle. Mrs.
EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Nov. 1810. We are to set out for Dublin on the 13th, to hear Davy's Lectures. Lord Fingal was so kind as to come here yesterday with Lady Teresa Dease, and he told me that my uncle is gone to Dublin. Tell me everything about it clearly. Honora, Fanny, and William go with us. Mrs. Edgeworth interpolates: We spent a few weeks in Dublin.
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.
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