Life And Letters Of Maria Edgeworth/Volume 2/Letter 131
To MRS. BEAUFORT.
EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Sept. 14, 1843. "Choisissez, mon enfant, mais prenez du veau." Choose, my dear Honora, whichever pattern you please, but take this which I enclose. We have had a very pleasant visit to Newcastle, where we met Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Gray, and I liked both very much. I thought her perfectly unpretending and unaffected; slight figure, a delicate woman, pretty dark hair and dark eyes, and pleasing expression of countenance. I never should have suspected her of being so learned or so laborious and persevering as she is. *** In November 1843 Miss Edgeworth went to London, and spent the winter with her sister Harriet, Mrs. Wilson.