BIB_ID
413994
Accession number
MA 1581.81
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Hereford, England, 1798 February 17.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 22.2 x 18.2 cm
Notes
Address panel: "Sir George Beaumont Bar."
The epigram whose text Price gives in this letter is also referred to in Price's previous letter to Beaumont, dated February 2, 1798 and cataloged as MA 1581.80.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 14.
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.
The epigram whose text Price gives in this letter is also referred to in Price's previous letter to Beaumont, dated February 2, 1798 and cataloged as MA 1581.80.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 14.
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 that Beaumont approves of "my manner of introducing Sir Joshua's Legacy" (probably a reference to Reynolds); telling him that the proof he will receive after the one enclosed with this letter will be the last (the proof referred to here is no longer with the letter), and that all he will have left to do then is the list of contents and a preface; adding that he wishes he could be sure that the book will then "get bought & read; but that, as old Homer says, lies in the knees of the Gods, as for all sublunary matters they are in a very ticklish state indeed"; saying that as he is in a somewhat splenetic mood, he will enclose his epigram on the king, and "if you have a mind to get me sent to Botany Bay why do -- a good safe place I believe"; giving the epigram, as follows: "Windsor! thy injur'd towers, parks, forests groan. / England! thy wealth, power, freedom, all are flown. / What various ruin from his petty tricks, / Whose taste was form'd by Brown; by Bute his politics"; adding at the end "I won't sign my name."
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