Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1803 June 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

Discussing a proposed trip to Coleorton and writing of "the pleasure I should most truly have in meeting you there, & in seeing & talking over what is to be your residence"; saying, however, that it will most likely be too difficult to coordinate his trip to Dorsetshire with Richard Payne Knight with a trip to Coleorton; recommending a gardener, James Cranston, who has worked for him (see also the previous letter, MA 1581.107); describing Cranston's character and experience; saying that he had discussed the idea of Cranston working for the Beaumonts with him, as well as the terms, and Cranston was agreeable: "I could not send you a better proxy; indeed he will be much more generally useful than I could possibly be: I dare say in a week, or possibly in less time, he will be able to settle with you all the most material points"; asking when Cranston should come; describing Cranston's physical appearance; saying that he has discussed various ideas for the landscape (the quarry, the lake) around Coleorton with Cranston, who will execute them; reminiscing about the first time he met Lady Margaret and Sir George and their friendship in general: "I will not say that as you do that I hope your friendship will last, I defy it to do otherwise; the only thing that vexes me is that years pass, & we see so little of each other"; mentioning the improvements he has made lately at Foxley ("I have just made a little little path among some little little rocks that quite delights me"); encouraging them to come for a "comfortable friendly visit" next year and "get the place by heart"; mourning the death of Lady Harriet Hamilton and saying "I do not think I ever saw in any human being such perfect purity of character in mind countenance & manners yet totally free from all coldness & reserve: her loss at the Priory is irreplaceable."