Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1803 May 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying that Beaumont's description of some Rubens paintings recently arrived in London made his mouth water, and that Lady Caroline was equally interested in it; adding that, however, he has no desire to leave "this delightful place in this delightful weather for your hot, dusty, stinking town"; modifying two lines from Shakespeare's King John to comment on the situation; asking "Who is the rich fellow that in spite of war & taxes, or perhaps, by means of war, will be able to purchase these treasures? They must go so amazingly high..."; writing of the political situation: "And so our pacific lenient Doctor [the Prime Minister, Henry Addington], has turned out an errant Sangrado, & is resolved to have Buonaparte's heart's blood out!"; saying that because of the threat of war, Richard Payne Knight has postponed a trip to France and they are going instead to Dorsetshire to see "Mr. Willett's drawings" (probably a reference to John Willett), stopping first at Corsham Court to see the new gallery there and then at Fonthill Abbey, where Benjamin West "will open every part to us"; adding that he hopes to have William Gilpin come visit him in the beginning of August, while his son Bob is home on vacation: "Bob insists on going down the Wye & I think Gilpin will be delighted to go, even if he should have been down before"; inviting them to come along on any part of his travels or to come visit them at Foxley; commenting on the death of the painter Thomas Jones and recounting his memories of Jones.