BIB_ID
413829
Accession number
MA 1581.68
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1794 December 4.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25 x 19.5 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 2.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 2.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Enclosing two sheets which he assures Beaumont are the last he would like him to read and asking him to return them since he has no other copies of them; explaining that they are in his hand, because after "my female secretary copied my peroration, I found it necessary to new model it"; writing "I hope you will think that tho I may have clawed Repton a little in the body of my letter, I have at least taken a good humoured leave of him, & made my apologies very prettily for having scratched him"; asking for Beaumont's comments on what he has written about the "general & confined sense of Beauty"; copying out lines from Richard Payne Knight's poem "The Landscape" that he is thinking of including in the essay; discussing the relationship of sight to touch and the distinctions between the beautiful and the picturesque; adding in a postscript that he will be in London for short time before Christmas and that he can be written to at Sunning Hill.
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