Maria Edgeworth to Sophy Ruxton from Malagny -… | Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University

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Maria Edgeworth to Sophy Ruxton from Malagny -…

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MS. Eng. lett. c. 718, fols. 187-191

Summary

Maria Edgeworth to Sophy Ruxton from Malagny - Château de Chillon - Byron - St Maurice - goitres - 'Les Châteaux en Espagne' - drunken woman at the inn - St Gingouph - Dumont - 'La pupille' - dinner at Coppet - Baron de Stein - Pictet Diodati - Gibbon and Madame Necker - the Marcets - fire balloon - instrument for measuring distance - Pictet de Rochemont - Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth for La Bibliotheque Britannique - Madame Necker de Saussure - (continued from Coppet) - society at Coppet - Bonstetten and Madame de Staël - Alphonse Rocca - the Sismondis - Austrian policy in Italy - Berne and Pescia and the caterpillars - anecdotes of kings of Naples and of Sardinia - Bonstetten in Scandinavia - Swiss winter gardens