BIB_ID
414033
Accession number
MA 1581.88
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Aberystwyth, Wales, 1800? September 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 20.2 x 16.1 cm
Notes
Price does not give a year of writing, but based on internal evidence (specifically Price's reference to an illness), the letter appears to have been written in 1800.
Written from Aberystwyth, where Price had built the villa Castle House.
Address panel with postmarks: "Lady Beaumont / Benarth / near Conway / N. Wales." 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) 21.
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 Aberystwyth, where Price had built the villa Castle House.
Address panel with postmarks: "Lady Beaumont / Benarth / near Conway / N. Wales." 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) 21.
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
Saying that he and his wife had arrived in Aberystwyth yesterday and he is sure that "the air & the sight of the delightful sea has already done me good"; telling Lady Beaumont that they had spent several days at Downton Castle with Richard Payne Knight, that he had been feeling better and ready to contemplate a trip to Benarth, "but the very next morning from my eagerness to see a new & very striking improvement of Knights, I got both tired & chilled, & was quite ill the next day"; mentioning that heavy rain meant that the cascades by the Devil's Bridge were "more magnificent than I had ever seen them"; urging Lady Beaumont and Sir George to come see them and to visit him in Aberystwyth; adding that there is "a very tolerable Inn with very decent bedchambers" near the Devil's Bridge and suggesting that the Beaumonts and Joseph Farington, if he is still with them, spend a day there with him on their way back to London; describing the beauty of the area around the massif Plynlimon and the three rivers (the Wye, the Severn, and the Rheidol) that have their source on it; adding as an additional enticement that "a herring fishery is just begun here: I am not allowed to touch them, but I am told they are delicious"; writing that Lady Caroline and his daughter (also named Caroline) ask to be "kindly remembered" to them both.
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