BIB_ID
414060
Accession number
MA 1581.92
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1801 July 11.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.9 x 18.9 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / 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) 25.
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 / 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) 25.
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
Expressing sympathy and concern for Sir George and Lady Margaret in the wake of an "alarming accident"; saying that he and his wife had been preparing to come visit them at Benarth when they learned that "whooping cough had just appeared in the house of a Lady who lives within a mile of me, on whose society my daughter depended during our absence, & on whose care & attention to her, we could equally depend"; adding that he and his son may still come to see them in September; discussing his correspondence with Stoddart and Stoddart's gratitude for Price's criticisms of his book (also referred to in the previous letter, MA 1581.91); saying that he may have to give up the title of "most candid and least irascible of authors," as Lord Abercorn once dubbed him; adding that if Beaumont was a member of Parliament, he would send him Stoddart's and Parr's letters to amuse him; writing "I should like you to be a member during the summer months, or at least whenever I was not in town with you."
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