Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1801 August 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

Asking whether her husband has received a pair of patent stirrups; describing them as "enchanted" and "the gift of a wise & benevolent Fairy" to "that mirror of Knighthood & Courtesy, the renowned Sir George Beaumont"; saying "in plain English" that the stirrups can be opened with one's feet and that they are intended to help Beaumont avoid future accidents like the one referred to in Price's previous letter (MA 1581.92); saying that it was lucky that he and his wife did not go on to Wales after Ludlow, because the weather was "abominable" and because their daughter developed whooping cough soon after their return home: "I at first thought it very hard upon her when she had so lately recovered from one violent illness, to be seized with another; but I now rejoice at it on many accounts; not only because she has had a very unpleasant disorder that never returns [returned?], but because there cannot be a stronger proof of her perfect recovery, than her having been so little affected, & for so short a time, by this symptomatic fever"; adding that the only drawback is that it means his son has to stay away from Foxley all summer, "as he has never had the hooping cough, & his is a very bad age for having it"; writing that he hopes that, in a few weeks, he can summon his son to Herefordshire and "after having well fumigated my whole person, put on fresh cloaths, & smoaked a pipe or two of right Virginia, [I] shall leave my wife & daughter, & go a touring with my son"; asking if the Beaumonts could host the two of them; adding that his son was very disappointed not to be able to come home for the summer, as "he is very eager about all the improvements of every kind, both on the farm & the place in general, & particularly about two ponds that I have been making this year; one of which was not begun when he was here last, but he knew the whole plan for it as well as I did. You with your Conway, & your Machno & your Ligwy probably despise my ponds, but come & look at them"; quoting a line from Thomas Gray; asking about mutual friends and saying that "all here, FitzPatrick included, desire to be remembered to you & Sir George."