BIB_ID
413987
Accession number
MA 1581.79
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1798 January 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with part of a seal and postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bar / North Aston / near / Woodstock / Oxfordshire."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 13.
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.
Address panel with part of a seal and postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bar / North Aston / near / Woodstock / Oxfordshire."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 13.
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
Saying that he is glad to have Beaumont's reaction to his ideas about "motion in a bridge"; mentioning that Charles James Fox has read his thoughts on the subject but has not yet responded to it; discussing Fox's manner of reading and responding; adding that John Nash and Humphry Repton have also discussed his ideas on this topic; telling Beaumont that he has included "a little bit from your letter about the pillars on Black Friar's bridge" in his essay; mentioning his use of parentheses; asking him to ignore the use of "cotemporary" (for "contemporary") in the fair copy and ascribing it to the "printer's obstinacy"; saying that Lord Abercorn has been reprimanding him on the same account and adding "hang me if ever I write the word again"; including Latin verses of his own composition, intended as an inscription on the sword presented by the Whig Club to Kościuszko; copying into his letter a bill for the two types of cider Sir George had ordered from him; copying the prices a second time at the bottom of the page to make sure they are not torn off with the seal when the letter is opened.
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