BIB_ID
414087
Accession number
MA 1581.99
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Sunninghill, England, 1802? June 18.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 22.1 x 18.4 cm
Notes
Price does not give the year of writing on the letter. A note on the verso in an unidentified hand reads "1801 or 2"; earlier catalog records have proposed 1802 as the year of writing.
Written from Sunninghill, a village in Berkshire. Price consistently writes the place name as "Sunning Hill." He may have been visiting his friend Richard FitzPatrick, who lived at Beech Grove, Sunninghill.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 33.
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 Sunninghill, a village in Berkshire. Price consistently writes the place name as "Sunning Hill." He may have been visiting his friend Richard FitzPatrick, who lived at Beech Grove, Sunninghill.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 33.
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
Saying that he is glad to hear they have arrived safely at Benarth (in North Wales), "& that you have met with such excellent Cyder on the road. In most things I have the most thorough confidence in Sir George's taste, but in respect to Cyder I wish he may not be a little inclined to [Coccagecism?], which I hold to be a vile & unchristianlike heresy, much worse than Arianism, & most adverse to the true Herefordshire faith"; grieving with her about some trees and saying "I dare say Lord Bulkeley's [probably Thomas Bulkeley] agent thinks the only trees worth looking at, are long drawn up things like his master"; commenting further on Bulkeley's height and love of money; discussing his plans to travel to North Aston, Foxley and possiby Benarth over the next few months; mentioning people he knows will be at Benarth (among them Richard Payne Knight and the Bowles family) and asking whether she will have room for him; telling her that the archbishop of Aix has translated a work of his into French and has sent him the manuscript for his review; commenting on the virtues and flaws of the translation, and giving an example of one mistake; sending greetings from his wife and daughter.
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