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1824-27. Maria Edgeworth and Family

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1824-27. Maria Edgeworth and Family - A Correspondence. manuscript, 2pp. to 6pp. each A good collection of entire letters, with six by Maria, three by Frances Anne, and one by Frances Maria and Lucy Jane. Maria's include two to Le Comte Edouard de la Grange, Rue St. Lazare and four to Mr. and Mrs. Strickland, ("He is one of our first Catholic families - I cannot vouch for his being dans les bons principes " she wrote to de la Grange in 1824). Interesting content such as thanking Mrs Strickland for sending her "Those very entertaining scandalous verses of [Richard Brinsley] Sheridan's which prove that drunk or sober wit was ever at his fingers ends. These have all the appearance of having been written when he was half seas over." Strickland was a local land agent for the Dillons, absentee landlord at Loughglynn Castlerea.(10 letters)

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