Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 112

To MRS. EDGEWORTH, IN LONDON.

EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Aug. 25, 1839.

You will, I am sure, give me credit for having so well and pleasantly performed our visits&mdash;Rosa, Lucy, and Francis with me&mdash;to the Pakenhams and Pollards. Francis found Mr. Pollard very agreeable, and was charmed with Mrs. Pollard's manners and conversation. We called on Mrs. Dease on our return, and walked in her garden, in which, in all my seventy years, I never walked before, and saw huge bunches of crimson Indian pinks, some of which are now in my garden, and well doing there.

In the morning, before we went to Kinturk, came a note from a gentleman at the White Hart, Edgeworthstown, waiting for an answer: an American medical professor, Dr. Gibson. It was very unlucky that I was engaged to go out&mdash;irrevocably settled: however, I sat two hours and a half with Dr. Gibson, and very clever and agreeable I found him.