Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1798 March 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

Announcing that he and his printer are finished with their work on his book; describing it metonymically: "I am (as a body may say) now in the Hereford waggon on my road to London, partly in boards, & partly in sheets, I shall be published I trust early next week, & if I can get sold just enough to cover the impression as it is called, I shall think myself a lucky man"; saying that he has asked Robson to put aside two copies for Beaumont and "Mr Bowles" (probably Oldfield Bowles); saying that since Beaumont most likely showed Bowles the proofs when they were sent to him at Bowles' house, he thought Bowles might like to have a copy of the finished book; responding at length to Beaumont's criticism of the idea of incorporating acacia trees and other exotic plants and trees into a landscape design; pointing out that "in many of the villages twenty miles round London [...] exotics are perfectly naturalized"; listing the many other exotic plants that can be seen "in the gardens of very ordinary houses & cottages" elsewhere in England; enclosing some verses on corruption in politics and "Pitt's new alchemy"; adding "Don't be angry Lady Beaumont, but I do believe this transmutation has undone the country. Let you & I be pax for all that"; adding in a postscript a long and detailed recommendation that Beaumont hire the architect John Nash for any alterations he intends to make at Haverhill; telling him that he would find Nash "uncommonly quick & full of resources taking your ideas very rapidly & very docile" and that his charges were reasonable, but that he should not trust Nash's estimates and should instead "get some other person to execute his designs, & dont say I told you so."