Letter from William Gilpin, Vicar's Hill, to Sir George Beaumont, 1802 March 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking Beaumont for negotiating with a Mr. Faringdon and promising to reimburse him for "[w]hatever expence he is at in adverting"; saying that he has sent the catalogue of his drawings to his nephew and marked in it his estimation of the value of the different pieces, "in order to take Mr. Christie's advice upon the precedence of each" (this is in reference to an upcoming sale; see MA 1581.55 for context); asking if his nephew could bring the catalogue to Beaumont for his opinion, "particularly with regard to the propriety of mentioning the several gentlemen, who have assured me of their friendship in the matter. If you think there is nothing improper in it, I will mention it to each of them, before I print. It appears to me of weight"; responding to a question from Beaumont about his manuscripts and saying that he has "a drawer full of writings," primarily accounts of three journeys (to North Wales, to the southern coast, and to Norfolk, "to examine the Houghton collection of pictures"); adding that he also has "a score of dialogues, on various subjects"; saying that he has instructed his executors that, if he does not make as much money as he hopes through the sale of his drawings, to try selling the manuscripts as well; mentioning that he received a letter the previous day from Colonel Mitford, who says that his brother John Freeman-Mitford, Baron Redesdale, is now reconciled to his "splendid banishment" (he had just been appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland); saying in a postscript that his nephew lives at Paddington and "a penny-post letter will bring him in a moment."