BIB_ID
414008
Accession number
MA 1581.86
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1800 August 4.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 20.2 x 16.1 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
The Beaumonts stayed at Benarth Hall in Conwy, North Wales, for several summers in the early 1800s.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 19.
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 Beaumonts stayed at Benarth Hall in Conwy, North Wales, for several summers in the early 1800s.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 19.
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
Thanking the Beaumonts for inviting him to Benarth, but explaining that he is ill and under strict orders from his doctor: "I am confined to one sort of plain meat, & that in small quantities, I begged hard, as you imagine, for a bit of pudding, which has been granted; it is however to be a very small peice, & not a plum or currant in it [...] Then I must not expose myself to the sun, or heat myself in any way"; reporting that, if he follows these orders very obediently and takes also "a few aperients and corroboratives," his doctor says he may be better in a fortnight; saying that his illness is in fact serious, but for his own sake and for theirs, he prefers to write about in a "jocular manner"; adding that he will let them know at the end of the fortnight how he is and whether he thinks he can manage the trip to Conwy; saying that he received a letter from Richard Payne Knight a few days ago in which Knight "talks with very great pleasure of the time he passed at Benarth"; discussing Knight's experiences climbing Mounts Snowdon and Cadair Idris; mentioning one Spencer who traveled with Knight and proved not to be a mountain-climber ("Knight says, 'he is the most feeble & helpless traveller I ever knew [...] I believe he has seen little more than what was visible from the windows of his chaise'"); relaying Knight's description of the waterfalls and cascades in the area; expressing how much he wishes he will be able to visit them; adding in a postscript that any letters to him can be addressed to FitzPatrick (probably his friend Richard FitzPatrick).
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