In her widowhood she found Mr.Edgeworth a most faithful and helpful friend; he offered to come over and aid in the search which was made at Mr.Day's death for a large sum of money which was not forthcoming, and which it was thought he might, after his eccentric fashion, have concealed; as he took this measure when, 'at the time of the American War, he had apprehended that there would have been a national bankruptcy, and under this dread he had sold out of the Stocks.

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A very considerable sum had been buried under the floor of the study in his mother's house.

This he afterwards took up, and placed again in the public funds at the return of peace.' Mr.Day had, before his marriage, promised to leave his library to his friend Edgeworth, but no mention was made of this in the will; he left almost everything to Mrs.Day.She, however, hearing of Mr.
Day's promise, offered his library to his friend; but Edgeworth, in the same generous spirit, refused it, and Mrs.Day then wrote to him as follows: 'MY DEAR MR.

EDGEWORTH,--I will ingenuously own, that of all the bequests Mr.Day could have made, the leaving his whole library from me would have mortified me the most--indeed, more than if he had disposed of all his other property, and left me only that.