The papers here all relate to an article published in the 'Quarterly Review' about letters between Maria Edgeworth and Anne Romilly. They have been divided into three distinct sections:

(1) typescript transcriptions of the "lost letters", 1814-1817, of Maria Edgeworth to Anne Romilly, including a transcription of a letter, 1823, of Edgeworth to Sophia Kennedy, daughter of Romilly, ? 1937: folios 1-76;

(2) manuscript notes on the contents of the letters of Maria Edgeworth to Anne Romilly, compiled by Samuel Henry Romilly, ? 1937: folios 77-88;

(3) off-print from the 'Quarterly Review' of an article, 'The lost letters of Maria Edgeworth', by Samuel Henry Romilly, 1937: folios 89-98.