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day school, and this Sunday-school, containing 60 children, 

 gave whatever education they received. Emma, when she 

 left school, also taught there. She composed four delightful 

 little stories written in simple words and just suited for a 

 child's mind. These she had printed in large type for the 

 use of the school. We, her own children, were taught to 

 read out of this little book, and were fond of these stories, 

 which are among some of our earliest recollections. We 

 especially enjoyed her mis-spelling, as we thought it, of the 

 word " plumb " in a story about a " plumb-pie." 



Fanny and Emma spent only one year at Mrs Mayer's, 

 though Emma was barely 15 at the end of the time. After 

 this her education was continued under the supervision of 

 her sisters Elizabeth and Charlotte, with occasional masters 

 when opportunities occurred. 



Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to her sister Fanny Allen 



at Geneva. 



[LONDON] Jan. 22, 1822. 



... At dinner we had Mr Whishaw and Mr Vizard, a very 

 pleasant day, but the best part of the whole was that Mr 

 Whishaw took me for you, my Fanny, all dinner time. I 

 have not been so pleased a great while. I had a new cap on. 

 I will always put it on when I mean to be charming. Now 

 when I have so long been pitying myself for growing old 1 

 and ugly to be taken for my Fan ! I thought he attended 

 to me more than usual at dinner, but I only set it down to 

 my being particularly agreeable. 



Mrs Josiah Wedgwood to ner sister Madame Sismondi. 



MAEB, April 8th, 1822. 



I have now two delightful letters to thank my Jessie for, 

 and I can send this for nothing by Edward Holland, which 

 is a great encourager to begin a long letter. I shall send 

 you the two last Edinburgh Reviews by him, indeed, I should 

 have done so before if I had not imagined you had them in 

 some other way. Blackwood's Magazine is always running 



1 She was fifty-eight, and Fanny Allen forty-one years old. 



