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Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1802 October 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
414103
Accession number
MA 1581.102
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1802 October 28.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 18.9 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Cheltenham [crossed out] / North Aston / Woodstock."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 36.
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 and his wife understand perfectly the Beaumonts having to defer their visit because of illness; asking in recompense that the Beaumonts must swear to come to Foxley bringing "chalks, pencil, pen, wash" and draw certain yew trees, with "their dark masses, their wild cedar like boughs, their deep mysterious shadows, with the fern at their feet, & the thickets, that at an awful humbly attend on their grandeur"; adding that the only time he tried the waters at Cheltenham, they did not agree with him, but he regrets not being able to visit the city for the sake of seeing them there; explaining that they were about to have visitors, but the illness of a maiden aunt, Anne Scudamore, intervened and the visitors cancelled; asking in a postcript what Beaumont thinks of "Sir R.H.'s performances" and referring to "Dance's caricature."