Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1801 August 16 : autograph manuscript signed.

Forgiving Beaumont for not writing more often, but saying "after all I should be sorry not to have sometimes a sight of your own handwriting, with G. Beaumont at the end in capitals, all the letters Suns, as Glocester says" (a quotation from King Lear); telling Beaumont that he and his family intend to make a short excursion, now that his daughter's health is better: "we shall proceed very slowly, & stop a day or two at Ludlow, (for Knight will be Philandering Lady Oxford down the Wye) & shall also stay some days at the excellent & quiet Inn at Hawkestone; after which they will proceed in the same gentle manner homewards, & I flatter myself that nothing will hinder me from taking the road to Conway"; describing how he intends to travel and asking if he could board a horse in Beaumont's stable, "as since my being an invalid I am more used to riding than walking"; relaying news of Lord Abercorn's accident and current state: "Ld Abercorn has had very little fever, is in very good spirits, & there are hopes that he will have the use even of the leg which was so dreadfully shattered"; saying that the bad luck that has prevented him from visiting Benarth seems to have also afflicted the Abercorns and mentioning that Lady Abercorn sprained her leg last year; adding that Richard Payne Knight had written to him immediately about the accident; praising Knight: "he is indeed a man full of good qualities, & he has one particularly which is equally a blessing to himself & his friends; I mean a most perfectly even temper which hardly anything can ruffle; & which is owing to a sound constitution & mind, & a right way of thinking, & by no means to want of feeling"; telling Knight that his son Bob is spending his summer holidays with Charles Fox and is very happy there, so Price will come to Wales alone.