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Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1800 August 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
414027
Accession number
MA 1581.87
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1800 August 22.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 23.3 x 18.8 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) 20.
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
Comparing himself, while recuperating from an illness, to an "accouchèe who longs for her month to be up that she may go again to plays, operas, concerts, balls masquerades &ca"; saying that, in his case, he longs to come visit them at Benarth, but his doctor advises that he spend at least another two weeks resting "before I can venture to play any pranks, & those too of a very sober kind"; describing the medical treatment he has undergone; saying that since there were concerns that his liver was affected, the doctor ordered that a blister be applied; writing that he ordered a blister larger than the doctor intended and applied it negligently, not securing it in one place, so "you may imagine what work the Spanish flies made when they had the range of my whole side"; saying that the "discharge from this wide wound, added to the other evacuations that were thought necessary to prepare me for strengthening medicines, made those medicines very necessary indeed"; adding that this was all occurring during an extraordinarily long spell of hot weather; saying that, because of his condition, he thinks that he will not be able to travel in the near future; praising his wife Caroline and saying "there never was so kind a comforter in sickness; it makes it almost worthwhile to be ill"; asking Beaumont if he knows anything about the movements of the Spencers and describing what he had heard from Richard Payne Knight about where they will be traveling and who they will be visiting; saying that he hopes Spencer (possibly William Robert Spencer) comes to visit him and "that he will bring his poem with him: Knight speaks very highly of it, & if I remember, says he read what was done of it to you at Benarth & that you liked it very much"; adding that he hopes Spencer continues writing the poem while he is in Wales, "the country of Taliessin & all the bards"; referring to Spencer's lack of interest in climbing mountains (mentioned in the previous letter, MA 1581.86); requesting a letter from Lady Beaumont; saying that he very much regrets not being able to come see them and the friends they currently have staying with them; asking whether Farington (probably Joseph Farington) is visiting them or whether he has "been kept prisoner in London"; concluding "Adieu; this is a long letter for an invalid & deserves two in return."