BIB_ID
414084
Accession number
MA 1581.98
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1802 April 27.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 24.3 x 19.2 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 32.
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.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 32.
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
Commenting on the lack of rain that spring; asking where Sir George and Lady Margaret will be spending the summer; saying that they are planning to have their house painted and are thinking of spending that period in Richmond, "if one can get anything comfortable for a month, for that is the difficulty"; asking Beaumont to ask Sir Henry Englefield ("the omniscient Baronet Sir H. Englefield) if he knows of any available accommodations; adding that since he began the letter, they have had "a very fine rain almost all last night & we look & smell as fresh as we ought to do in April"; writing that he wishes Lady Beaumont would come for at least a week to paint "two distinct woods" around Foxley; quoting a line from the Aeneid to describe what he imagines as Lady Beaumont's reaction to his description of the woods; imagining a dialogue between Sir George and Lady Margaret about Price's hyperbole; recalling a ride they took together and other picturesque woods they have seen.
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