| Description | Letter written from 1 North Audley Street [London], dated 27 April. The letter is addressed 'Dear Sir'. Edgeworth provides the recipient with introductions into American society. For example, she encloses for him a letter to a Mr and Mrs Tichnor 'who will do all you wish both in the best literary and best mannerd society in Boston'; a letter to Mr and Mrs Cruger who 'will introduce you to a certain set of society in New York that you may perhaps be curious to see'; and offers to write on his behalf to Marchioness Wellesley, if her sister, Lady Camarthaen, does not provide him with a letter of introduction as promised. She also encloses a letter to Gerard Ralstone, her oldest friend amongst the Ralstones.
At the end of the letter, Edgeworth appears to identify her correspondent as a Mr Powell: 'it is a pleasure and satisfaction to me to do any how the least service in my power to you as Lerlocke W[al]dron's friend and as the son of his friend and partner Mr Horsley Palmer' |