BIB_ID
413954
Accession number
MA 1581.77
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Sunninghill, England, 1797? December 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.6 x 18.5 cm
Notes
Price does not give the year of writing on the letter. Based on internal evidence, earlier catalog records have listed the year of writing as 1797.
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.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 11.
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.
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.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 11.
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
Mentioning taking a reference to one "Perelle" (possibly the engraver Gabriel Perelle) out of his work in progress; referring to Charles James Fox's opinion on Perelle; discussing the enclosed text and saying that he had sent it to Fox, who approved of it; saying that he called on Fox the previous day, bringing a new text he had written about bridges, and that Fox had read it aloud to "Mrs. Armstead [Elizabeth Armistead], commenting as he went"; adding that on his way back, he had also stopped at "old Sandby's" and read it aloud to him, "so that I had a pretty good author's morning"; enclosing a riddle told to him by Fox; saying that he is about to send the text on bridges to Sir Henry Englefield, who will then send it on to Beaumont; asking Beaumont to return it with his remarks; writing that "[y]our account of the three primary colours & their analogy to the three characters seems to me very just & ingenious; I only wish you would turn author"; adding "Not just at this moment however, for I fear nobody will have money to buy books, as I probably shall find to my cost; but in case peace & co. should ever come again, which I begin to despair of. You may prepare for the press, against such good times, & I can tell you a little collection of one's own MSS., with the idea of sometime or other seeing them fairly printed, is a very amusing thing. What a Sir Pandarus of Troy am I, trying to seduce a poor innocent into the printing shop!"; commenting in a postscript on the characters and qualities of various painters, including Rembrandt and George Morland.
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