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They spent a pleasant week, I hope, at Edgeworthstown. I am sure Honora did everything that was possible to make it pleasant to them, and we regretted a million of times that your mother was not at home. Sir Culling expected to have had all manner of information as to roads, distances, and time, but Mrs.
This was the first work of that literary partnership of father and daughter which Maria Edgeworth describes as "the joy and pride of my life." MARIA to MISS SOPHY RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Nov. 19, '98. You have, I suppose, or are conscious that you ought to have, whitlows upon your thumb and all your four fingers for not writing to me!
Her poorer neighbours were made sharers in all her interests or pleasures, and all those she employed were treated as friends rather than servants. All her sympathies were in behalf of Ireland. Yet she met with no return of affection or sympathy. In 1836 we find Mrs. Farrar writing of Edgeworthstown: *
Though I admire the instance and exception to general rules, I should not wish a similar experiment to be often repeated, being very much of Dr. Johnson's opinion, that there are so many causes naturally of disagreement between people yoked together, that there is no occasion to add another unnecessarily. To MR. BANNATYNE. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Dec. 4, 1827.
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.
O'Beirne, Miss Honora Edgeworth, Miss Lucy Edgeworth, Miss Ruxton, Mrs. Ruxton. Return to Edgeworthstown Literary work and reading: Early Lessons, Harry and Lucy Walter Scott and Joanna Baillie Death of Lord Londonderry Visit to Scotland Edinburgh: Evening at Sir Walter Scott's Sir Walter Scott, Lady Scott, and Lockhart A fortnight at Abbotsford.
A gentleman was, by the force of motive, endued with such extraordinary strength in the midst of that night's danger, that he wrenched from its iron spike and pedestal a fine marble bust of Cromwell, carried it downstairs, and threw it on the grass. Next morning he could not lift it! and no one man who tried could stir it. To MRS. RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Dec. 19, 1825.
I hope, dear Honora, that the rhododendrons will not exhaust themselves; at this moment yours opposite the library window are in the most beautiful profuse blow you can conceive, and at the end of my garden indescribably beautiful, and scarlet thorn beside. The peony tree has happily survived its removal, and is covered with flowers. To MRS. R. BUTLER. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, June 24, 1846.
Ralston applied to purchase some seeds for me, as soon as she heard the name, refused to take any payment for a parcel of forty different kinds of seeds. She said she knew my father, as she came from Longford: her name was Hughes. To MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Sept. 26.
The family seems to have made little of distances, and to have ridden and posted to and fro from Dublin to Edgeworthstown in storm and sunshine. When Messrs.
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