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Whatever the errors may have been, oh, what have been the unremitted, generous, alas! overstrained exertions of that noble nature! To MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Nov. 15, 1832. Thank you, I am quite well. My only complaint is that I never can do any day as much as I intended, and am always as much hurried by the dressing-bell as I am at this instant.
Children's questions are often simply sublime: the question your three-years-old asked was of these "Who sanded the seashore?" To MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, May 29, 1829. This appointment is, in every respect, all that Captain Beaufort wished for himself, and all that his friends can desire for him.
Is it not curious that, just when you wrote to us, all full of Mrs. Strickland at Edgeworthstown, we should have been going about everywhere with Mr. Strickland at Paris? I read to him what you said about his little girl and Foster as he was going with us to a breakfast at Cuvier's, and he was delighted even to tears.
Henry Pakenham went up, just as we left Pakenham Hall, to town or to the Park to Lady Wellesley, who gives a parting ball, and then follows Sir Arthur to England. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Feb. 2, 1809. . I think it will do a vast deal of good, and besides it is extremely interesting, which all good books are not: it has great powers, both comic and tragic.
"Taking for Granted" was laid aside by Miss Edgeworth for ten years after this. When Mr. Ticknor was at Edgeworthstown in 1835, he says: *
Anne Scott writes to Harriet that her father is so busy writing, that she scarcely sees anything of him, though they are alone together at Abbotsford. Lockhart is much admired in London for his beauty. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, April 25, 1827. I really cannot express to you how much you have gratified me by the proof of confidence you have given me.
Years and years afterwards Edward Fitzgerald stayed at Edgeworthstown, and he also carries us there in one of his letters. He had been at college with Mr. Frank Edgeworth, who had succeeded to the estate, and had now in 1828 come to stay with him.
Professor Marc-Auguste Pictet, of Geneva, visited the Edgeworths this summer, coming over from Mr. Tuite's, of Sonna, where he was staying with Mr. Chenevix. He afterwards published an interesting account of his visit to Edgeworthstown in the Bibliotheque Britannique, as well as in his Voyage de trois mots en Angleterre, which was published at Geneva in 1802. Of Maria Edgeworth he says: *
All the people whose portraits are hanging up, beruffled, dignified, calm, and periwigged, on the old walls of Edgeworthstown certainly had extraordinarily strong impressions, and gave eloquent expression to them.
Lady Caledon is a real person, doing a great deal of good sensibly. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Aug. 7, 1845. How characteristic Joanna Baillie's letter is, so perfectly simple, dignified, and touching. To MISS MARGARET RUXTON. August 7, 1845.
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