BIB_ID
413883
Accession number
MA 1581.75
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Sunninghill, England, 1797? November 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 20.5 x 26.3 cm
Notes
Signed with initials.
Price does not give the year of writing in the letter, and the information on the address panel is unclear. Earlier catalog records have proposed that the letter was written in 1797, probably because of the reference to "the loss of Burke" (Edmund Burke died in 1797).
The sheet on which the letter was written served as the cover for the manuscript discussed in the letter.
Written from Sunninghill, a village in Berkshire. Price consistently writes the place name as "Sunning Hill." He may have been visiting his friend Richard FitzPatrick, who lived at Beech Grove, Sunninghill.
Address panel with postmarks: "Stanes November twenty ninth 99 / Sr G. Beaumont B.t / Dunmow. "
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 9.
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.
Price does not give the year of writing in the letter, and the information on the address panel is unclear. Earlier catalog records have proposed that the letter was written in 1797, probably because of the reference to "the loss of Burke" (Edmund Burke died in 1797).
The sheet on which the letter was written served as the cover for the manuscript discussed in the letter.
Written from Sunninghill, a village in Berkshire. Price consistently writes the place name as "Sunning Hill." He may have been visiting his friend Richard FitzPatrick, who lived at Beech Grove, Sunninghill.
Address panel with postmarks: "Stanes November twenty ninth 99 / Sr G. Beaumont B.t / Dunmow. "
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 9.
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
Sending a proof "that with alterations & additions is half a manuscript"; writing that he has two essays (on "artificial water" and "the decorations near the house") sewed together and asking where he should send them so as to reach Beaumont; saying that business calls him to Herefordshire and he is only waiting until the beginning of "my boy's holyday" so that he can take him along; writing "I will endeavour to add something, on what I truly feel -- my respect for the loss of Burke"; praising a letter full of the "most wonderful strains of eloquence, & of keen ridicule"; mentioning Beaumont's "account of the town of Tivoli" and saying that there is a place ready for it; agreeing with Beaumont about "Wheatley's assertion"; writing "You can't conceive what good fun it is to be an author; I really think I have doubled my mass of happiness by it, as well as of ideas."
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