BIB_ID
414168
Accession number
MA 1581.109
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England?, 1803 June 17.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.1 x 18.6 cm
Notes
Price does not date the letter. Date, month and year of writing taken from the postmark.
Price does not give a place of writing. The letter is postmarked "Hereford" and is most probably written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Lady Beaumont / Dunmow / Essex."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 43.
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.
Price does not give a place of writing. The letter is postmarked "Hereford" and is most probably written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Lady Beaumont / Dunmow / Essex."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 43.
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
Discussing when the gardener Cranston will arrive at Coleorton (see letters MA 1581.107-108 for background); discussing the amount of time it will take to plan and execute the designs for the landscape around Coleorton and how it should be done; describing the tools used to clear woods and thickets for future "walks, rides, or drives"; making recommendations about plantings; listing different trees and how they fare in different shade conditions; discussing thinning out trees and the process of choosing and marking trees to be felled; saying that he has talked to Cranston about their quarry and adding "If it is an old quarry & there are any old mossy stones, or that have a good patina upon them remember I have them reserved & put aside for future foregrounds, & for the bank of your water if you should make it, or they may be all buried in your foundations."
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