Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1803 June 28 : autograph manuscript.

Praising her descriptions of some paintings in a letter and saying "they seem rather original ideas from which a picture might be painted, than images suggested to the Poet by the Painter"; saying he had the same thought recently about "a description in Cowper copied most literally & faithfully from Hogarth's print of Morning"; praising a poem by Charles Oldfield Bowles; saying that he is thinking of making "a fair manuscript of Sir George's letter describing this & the other pictures of Rubens upon the same sized paper as the poem, & of binding them both together"; quoting Pope's line about sound echoing sense; describing a line in Bowles's poem about a kingfisher and saying "I hardly know why, but when I read it, I thought I saw the bird, & that the motion of the verse was like his motion: yet there is not the least appearance of any intention"; relaying his wife Caroline's reaction to another part of the poem; mentioning that it sounds as if Sir George will be basing a painting on Theocritus's Idylls and saying that he must not be content with the translations, but "rub up his doric, as I am doing at the moment [...] Both the Idylls alluded to are luckily in our Eton Poetæ Græci, with good comfortable Latin to them"; saying that the gardener James Cranston is on his way to them and adding "I shall expect at his return a picture of him dal vero by Sir George, & a description at full length also by you: I shall be very curious to know what you think of him, & how you like him"; writing in a postscript that he hears that Cranston's wife is ill but he hopes this does not delay his journey.