EDGEWORTHSTOWN, _October 1811._

Davy spent a day here last week, and was as usual full of entertainment

and information of various kinds. He is gone to Connemara, I believe, to

fish, for he is a little mad about fishing; and very ungrateful it is of

me to say so, for he sent to us from Boyle the finest trout! and a trout

of Davy's catching is, I presume, worth ten trouts caught by vulgar

mortals. Sneyd went with him to Boyle, saw Lord Lorton's fine place, and

spent a pleasant day. Two of Mr. Davy's fishing friends have since

called upon us: Mr. Solly, a great mineralogist, and Mr. Children, a man

of Kent.

I am working away at "Patronage," but cannot at all come up to my idea

of what it should be.

_To_ MRS. MARY SNEYD.

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