BIB_ID
414074
Accession number
MA 1581.96
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1801 December 4.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.6 x 18.9 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Lady Beaumont / Dunmow / Essex."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 29.
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: "Lady Beaumont / Dunmow / Essex."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 29.
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
Asking her whether she saw John Nash at Bath and, if she did, whether he mentioned receiving a letter from Price or had plans to come to Foxley; recounting certain ideas he has for improvements to a house and landscape (possibly Foxley), but expressing doubts about whether he will be able to pursue them; saying that he is "several years younger & several pounds fatter" than when she last saw him: "Lady Caroline says it is from my having left off all red potations & addicted myself unto sack, that is to white wine; but, with her leave, all the honour is not due to this change of liquor; but to the medicine I recommended to Sir George, and which he, like a naughty child, would not take, because it looked, (& perhaps tasted a little) like a black dose"; looking forward to seeing various friends and "reading Miss [Joanna] Baillie" in the new year; including two lines from Horace in Latin, in reference to coming to see them; adding "Whether Lady Caroline & I shall fly together, like the two spirits in Dante, or those Zephyrs, I don't know; she is still more attached to this Herefordshire clay than myself, & never desires to take a longer flight than round her own Farm"; telling her that he is reading Montaigne's essays for the first time, after having heard so much about them: "He is a most amazing old Bavard, & full of strong original thoughts, very strongly, & originally expressed. I think you would like him in general, but you would quite love him when he talks upon politics & the danger of changes in government, & the facility of destroying, & the difficulty of rebuilding: if after this you don't send instantly to your Bookseller for Les Essais de Montagne, I shall think you are turned Democrat & have corrupted Sir George."
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