BIB_ID
414007
Accession number
MA 1581.85
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1799 September 22.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.1 x 18.2 cm + wrapper
Notes
The wrapper has numerous postmarks and several addresses and other markings on it, as follows: "North Wales / Missent twice to Dumow / Hereford September twenty second 1799 / Sir George Beaumont Bart / Keswick [crossed out] / Cumberland [crossed out] / Free / J. Hereford / Dunmow [crossed out] / Essex [crossed out] / Sir Geo. Beaumont Bart / Benworth near Conway." None of the addresses appear to be Price's hand.
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 18.
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 Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 18.
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
Describing an accident that befell him a fortnight ago in the course of designing a bridge over a gravel path; describing a dinner at the Duke of Norfolk's, attended by the Corporation of Hereford; saying that he was very happy to find himself seated next to Benjamin West; describing the Duke's speeches and toasts during the dinner, during which the duke sang the praises of the mayor of Hereford, the Scudamore family, and Charles James Fox, and denounced William Pitt; mentioning that he and West talked of Beaumont during the dinner and, when the duke overheard them, he chimed in with his own memories of drinking sessions he had shared with Beaumont; saying that West stayed with him for two days, but the "weather was most unlucky; not one ray of sun the whole time, nothing but cold fogs & rain; & the instant he was gone, the finest lights I ever saw"; mentioning that West's visit was followed by one from John Hoppner; describing Hoppner's feelings about West: "he does indeed hate him with a black hatred & does not disguise it"; writing "I wish these artists would give one some notice of their coming; Hoppner arrived in the afternoon with his wife & son in the midst of a most settled rain; I was at Ld Oxford's: with much pressing he came in & staid all night"; describing other comings and goings; adding in a postscript on the wrapper that he looks forward to seeing the Beaumonts in Conwy, Wales, that Lady Caroline may join him though he doesn't depend upon it, and that he "desires to be laid at Lady Beaumonts feet, a position Lord Lavington always begs to be placed in whenever L[ad]y Lavington writes to L[ad]y Caroline."
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