BIB_ID
414069
Accession number
MA 1581.95
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1801 September 21.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 22.6 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Price does not give a year of writing at the top of the letter, but he does list it on the address panel.
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Hereford Septr twenty one 1801 / Lady Beaumont / Benarth / Conway / N. Wales / For R [Biddalph?]." 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) 28.
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.
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Hereford Septr twenty one 1801 / Lady Beaumont / Benarth / Conway / N. Wales / For R [Biddalph?]." 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) 28.
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
Mentioning some fruit and saying that he is hesistant to ask them for anything after previously asking for port, "even from you, who I know would most willingly have given me whatever would have conduced to my health or my pleasure"; including a line from Homer in Greek; telling her about an artist, John Varley, to whom Lord Essex has just introduced him: "he chiefly studies landscape, but draws every thing that comes in his way; I never saw so eager a creature, or one so devoted to his profession"; adding "Lord Essex tells me that [Henry] Edridge and [John] Hoppner have a high opinion of him as a very rising artist; & Knight, who saw his drawings at Hereford, was so pleased with them, that he has invited him to Downton to meet you & Sir George; if after tasting him there, we like him sufficiently, I will ask him to come on with us to Foxley"; describing Varley as "a great talker, & his ideas are sometimes a little wild; but that is better than being too tame"; adding "I shall hope to hear from Sir George the first bracing weather" and saying how much he and his family look forward to seeing them.
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