BIB_ID
414042
Accession number
MA 1581.89
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Shrewsbury and other locations, circa 1800.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.7 x 18.1 cm
Notes
The letter is missing its initial page or pages. It was written in stages: the place of writing for the initial section is unknown, but the sections that follow were written at Shrewsbury and Downton Castle (the home of his friend Richard Payne Knight) in Herefordshire. Because of the missing sections, Price's addressee also cannot be determined with certainty, but based on the provenance and contents of the letter, it is most likely to have been Sir George Beaumont.
The letter is undated (apart from "Wednesday Evening" and "Thursday Evening"). It describes a journey from Wales back to Foxley, and earlier catalog records suggest that it may have been written in the fall of 1800.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 22.
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 letter is undated (apart from "Wednesday Evening" and "Thursday Evening"). It describes a journey from Wales back to Foxley, and earlier catalog records suggest that it may have been written in the fall of 1800.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 22.
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 the Vale of Clywd in northeast Wales; mentioning visiting Denbigh Castle and a drawing that Beaumont had made of it; describing the road from Denbigh to Ruthin, and certain trees along the way; saying "If you stop at all at Ruthin I desire you will observe the countenance of the woman of the house: I thought the expression was remarkably mild & pleasing"; describing a vista outside of Ruthin; [written from Shrewsbury]: referring to an inn at Llangollen and saying how good the service was, despite what he had heard from Beaumont and others; describing his interactions with the innkeeper; mentioning a waiter with a comical appearance; recounting a visit to an aqueduct nearby (possibly Pontcysyllte Aqueduct) and giving Beaumont exact directions to the site; describing the aqueduct as "a most noble work & extremely striking from every point"; saying that he was accompanied by "the person who conducts the work" around the site, from whom he learned "every sort of information"; mentioning that he was told in Oswestry that the road to Welshpool had, after a rain, been "most terribly cut up by the timber carriages"; saying that he now regrets not taking that road, however bad it might have been, because on entering Shrewsbury, his mare fell "& cut both her knees, one of them very badly"; [written from Downton]: telling Beaumont that he has been forced to leave his servant and his mare behind, with the servant riding a post-horse and leading the mare back to Foxley; adding that the post-horses pulling his own carriage were also completely exhausted and, despite getting out and pushing the carriage several times, in the end he had to walk the last part on foot; saying that he found Knight quite alone at Downton: "we dined rapidly, had coffee early, & took a most delightful walk through the whole valley, & I never saw it in higher beauty. He has done a great deal since I was here, & has opened some very charming scenery which was totally concealed"; saying that he sets off tomorrow for Foxley and asking to be remembered to Lady Beaumont; adding "Knight desires to be remember [sic] to you both, & depends upon you in October."
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