Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1803 May 31 : autograph manuscript signed.

Describing the poor state of his health and saying that he is going to Llandrindod Wells for treatment; writing of the waters at Llandrindod that "a very intelligent Physician at Hereford often told me that in his opinion they are by many degrees the most powerful & efficacious of any in the whole Island"; describing the two wells (one sulfurous, one chalybeate) and the process of treatment; writing of Llandrindod's reputation in his youth and its decline; focusing on one establishment, whose proprietor (possibly the father of the painter Thomas Jones) became a Methodist and began to think that the social life of the town was sinful; explaining that Mr. Jones did not close his establishment, but refused to repair it, so "the roofs of course got untiled, the timbers decayed, & he got rid of the company by what, in this country is called, a Welch ejectment"; discussing paying a visit to Coleorton with Richard Payne Knight on their way to seeing John Willett in Dorsetshire and asking if she has any objections to this plan, especially whether it would cause problems with the architect George Dance: "You have mentioned in your letter that you wish for no adviser but myself, & that Mr. Dance, you believe, would give up the business if you called in any other. Should Knight be included in the general proscription you must let me know it, & I of course shall say nothing to him on the subject"; recommending a gardener named Cranston to her and praising him very highly: "he is perfectly acquainted with every thing that relates to plantations, working ground, the prices of work, levelling &ca & from having lived with me so long, & being a very quick intelligent man, he knows all my ideas of planting & thinning trees, & indeed of all kinds of improvements"; saying that he does not know what Cranston's terms would be, but he thinks he would charge less than Repton; adding that he is very happy to hear that one of the Rubens paintings (mentioned in the previous letter, MA 1581.106) is now in Sir George's possession and he hears that it was a present to him from "a Lady who has had a long attachment to him: some say indeed that they have been married several years."