At Clifton: Sir Humphry Davy, Dr. Beddoes, Mrs. Barbauld--Death of Dr. Darwin--Literary work at Edgeworthstown: _Castle Rackrent, Belinda, Early Lessons, Moral Tales, Essay on Irish Bulls_--Visits of Mr. Chenevix and Professor Pictet--Journey to London. 1802-1803 Letters from London, Brussels, Chantilly, Paris, Calais, Edinburgh to Miss Sneyd, Miss Sophy Ruxton, Mrs. Mary Sneyd, Mrs. Ruxton, C.S. Edgeworth. A visit to Miss Watts at Leicester--Journey to Paris: Calais, Dunkirk, Bruges, Ghent--Madame Talma in _Andromaque_ at Brussels--Palace of Chantilly--Paris: Madame Delessert, Madame Gautier, Madame de Pastoret, M. Dumont, Abbé Morellet, M. Suard, Marquis of Lansdowne, M. Degerando, M. Camille Jordan, Madame Campan, Madame Recamier, Baron de Prony, Rogers, M. Pictet, Kosciusko--Monsieur Edelcrantz proposes to Maria Edgeworth; her feelings towards him--Buonaparte--Madame d'Ouditot and Rousseau--Rumours of war--The Edgeworths return to England--Account of a visit to Madame de Genlis. 1803-1809 Letters from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Black Castle, Edgeworthstown, Rosstrevor, Allenstown, Pakenham Hall to Mrs. Ruxton, Miss Honora Edgeworth, Miss Charlotte Sneyd, Miss Ruxton, Henry Edgeworth, C. Sneyd Edgeworth, Mrs. Edgeworth. Visit to Lindley Murray at Newcastle--Dugald Stewart at Edinburgh--Return to Edgeworthstown--Literary work: _Popular Tales, Leonora, Griselda_--Marriage of Miss Pakenham to Sir Arthur Wellesley (Duke of Wellington)--Death of Dr. Beddoes. 1809-1813 Letters from Edgeworthstown, Black Castle, Bangor Ferry, Liverpool, Derby, Cambridge, London to Miss Ruxton, Miss Honora Edgeworth, Mrs. Ruxton, C. Sneyd Edgeworth, Miss Sneyd, Mrs. Edgeworth. Publication of _Tales of Fashionable Life_: Madame de Staël, Lord Dudley, Lord Jeffrey upon--Life at Edgeworthstown: Mr. Chenevix, Miss Lydia White, Sir Henry Holland, Mrs. Inchbald, Mrs. Barbauld, Hannah More, Lady Wellington--Marriage of Sir Humphry Davy--Literary pursuits: Byron's _English Bards_, Scott's _Lady of the Lake_ and _Rokeby_, Campbell: _Patronage, Tales of Fashionable Life_ (second series), _The Absentee_--Balloon ascent of Sadler--Journey to London: Roscoe, Dr. Ferrier, Sir Henry Holland--Visit to Cambridge and to Dr. Clarke at Trumpington. 1813-1817 Letters from London, Malvern Links, Ross, Edgeworthstown, Dublin, Black Castle to Miss Ruxton, Mrs. Ruxton, Sir Walter Scott, C.S. Edgeworth. Visit to London: Madame de Staël, Davy, Byron, Miss Berry's, Lord Lansdowne, Lady Wellington, Mrs. Siddons, the Prince Regent, Lady Elizabeth Monk, Dukes of Kent and Sussex, Sir James Macintosh, Dumont, Sir Samuel Romilly, Dr. Parr, Malthus, Madame d'Arblay, Rogers--Return to, and life at Edgeworthstown: _Early Lessons, Popular Plays, Harrington, Ormond--Waverley_--Illness and Death of Mr. Edgeworth. 1817-1820