BIB_ID
414206
Accession number
MA 1581.112
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1803 August 23.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Hereford August twenty four / 1803 / Sr. G. Beaumont Bt. / Dunmow / Essex." There are a number of other addresses on the letter, including "Lowther Hall" and "Mulgrave Castle," but these have been crossed out.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 46.
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.
Address panel with postmarks: "Hereford August twenty four / 1803 / Sr. G. Beaumont Bt. / Dunmow / Essex." There are a number of other addresses on the letter, including "Lowther Hall" and "Mulgrave Castle," but these have been crossed out.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 46.
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
Saying that he has had an attack of "blind piles" for the past six days; describing in great detail what piles are and what the pain occasioned by them is like; writing that Beaumont's description of Lowther Castle and its owner (William Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale) makes him eager to be acquainted with them both; adding that it reminds him of a "fairy tale where a grand mansion & domain are inhabited by an Ogre [...] at last the Ogre is destroyed, the golden bells on the top of the house are rung for joy, & the whole country crowds in to welcome the new & amiable possessor" (the "Ogre" in this case is James Lowther, recently deceased); saying that it sounds like there would be a great deal of work for his gardener James Cranston to do at Lowther, but he is concerned that Cranston may leave him altogether if he goes to Lowther, is successful there and finds he is in demand generally; adding that he knows this is a selfish consideration and he has a great regard for Cranston and does not wish to "stop his advancement"; commenting that Sir George and Lady Margaret's accounts of their "new poetical friends" makes him also wish to meet them: "I had heard that Mr. Coleridge was supposed to be tainted with democracy; what you suspect is probably true, that there has been in this, as in other cases of the same kind a good deal of exaggeration. I believe too that many who were tainted, have since been completely cured; for luckily the French, without intending it, have administered an antidote not less strong than their poison"; adding in a postscript that Cranston has just called on him and he was "full of gratitude to you & Lady Beaumont for your recommendation & very much flattered by your having thought him worthy of directing the improvements on a place on such a scale"; saying that Cranston has numerous engagements for the immediate future, but might be able to work with Lord Lowther the following spring or summer and that he will talk it over with them when he comes to Coleorton.
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