BIB_ID
414047
Accession number
MA 1581.91
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1801 June 16.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.5 x 19.5 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Benarth / 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) 24.
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.
Address panel with postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Benarth / 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) 24.
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 a severe attack of rheumatism and its effects: "I could scarcely crawl from chair to chair about my room, where I was close prisoner; being no more able to get up & down stairs, than to climb Snowdon"; describing in detail a treatment of cupping, the great pain it caused him and his subsequent improvement; adding "at one time I was upon the point of writing to you to desire you would send to the Haverhill apothecary for his infallible remedy, & if I should relapse, I believe I shall trouble you"; saying that he doesn't know if there is any connection between "the Rheumatism & the Dyspepsia (a hard word for indigestion) but certainly my stomach is worse since my hip is got better"; writing that, despite his illness, he and his wife Caroline have been discussing coming to visit them in July; saying that he is not sure that Lady Caroline will come in the end, "though at present she really seems very much inclined to take this expedition with me, & I believe the great, and only drawback is the thought of leaving her daughter; for it would be imprudent to take her a long journey after having had so violent an illness, tho. she is now perfectly recovered"; asking whether Beaumont has a bathing tub and whether he ever takes a "saltwater bath," since he is close to the sea; saying that he would very much like to try it "3 or 4 times while I am [in] Benarth as it probably would be of service both to my stomach & my rheumatic hip"; mentioning in a postscript some criticisms he had made of a book and how well the author received them, so that he has sent more: "I shall be curious to see his next letter, I wish he may not wince a little."
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