Letter from Uvedale Price, Brampton Bryan?, to Sir George Beaumont, 1798 November 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

Asking for news and complaining "I know no more about you & Lady Beaumont than if you were in the moon, nor where you have been, nor how you have been employed"; asking if the two of them have been painting and drawing and complimenting their artistic work generally; saying that he himself has not very much to relate, but that he is now writing from Lord Oxford's, who he visits often and "always with great pleasure"; saying that Lady Oxford is, like himself, "for cutting off all your friends' heads" but that he would like to introduce them to each other and he is sure they would get along in all other respects; praising her "mind full of sensibility & a natural taste & feeling for what is elegant in every way" and her "appearance of extreme carelessness & playfulness of manner"; adding "You perhaps begin to think that I am in love with this beautiful neighbor; & so I am, & so is every body who sees her often, & so shall you be"; mentioning that Lord and Lady Oxford are going to Bath in ten days, and that he and his wife Caroline will also be traveling to Bath but with a stop first at Cheltenham to visit a friend of hers; inviting Beaumont to come to Bath with them; saying that it would give them the opportunity to visit Paul Cobb Methuen at his estate, Corsham Court, and see the work that John Nash has been doing there ("his new gothic front, his new Gallery"); mentioning that Richard Payne Knight is also thinking of coming to Bath, "so we shall be a coram, or quorum of Connoisseurs"; recounting a dinner about a month ago in the course of which "Knight had a noble batch of greek with Dr. Parr [probably Samuel Parr]"; describing Parr's appearance at breakfast the morning after; telling Beaumont not to bother responding to "all this nonsense" and to come join them in Bath instead.