Letter from Maria Edgeworth, Edgeworthstown, to Adélaide Pastoret, 1814 June 6 : autograph manuscript signed.

Renewing their friendship, which had begun in Paris in 1803 but was interrupted by the Napoleonic Wars; saying that she read Madame de Pastoret's letter out loud to her father Richard Lovell Edgeworth, who has been ill, and writing of how pleased they are to hear from their friends in Paris again; asking her to pass along greetings to numerous mutual friends, including Madame Gautier and Monsieur Morellèt; mentioning that her brother Lovell had been a prisoner in France and describing some of his experiences there; responding to news from Madame de Pastoret and inviting her and her husband Claude Emmanuel Pastoret to visit them in Ireland; discussing the recent visit of Lord and Lady Lansdowne to Paris; hoping for Madame de Pastoret's opinion on her recent novel Patronage: "We shall be curious, and anxious to know what you think of it, and I should consider it as a proof of your regard if you would tell me freely what you think yourself and the general opinion of those who read it;" adding "If it should be translated it will give the translators less trouble than some of the former tales they have translated in which there was a great deal of English & Irish Patois;" wondering if she has read Edgeworth's short novel Madame de Fleury, "and whether you know any body or whether M. de Pastoret knows any body who resembles Madame de Fleury" (Edgeworth had in fact based the character on Madame de Pastoret herself).