Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1803 October 5 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying that he has a serious attack of illness that has left his "stomach in a wretched state of weakness" and that the remedies he has tried have not helped; adding that this has come at an unlucky time, derailing his plans to come visit them at Coleorton and to see other friends on the way there; describing his disappointment; adding that his only consolation is that George Dance and James Cranston are the best possible advisors on everything having to do with landscaping, planting and the situation of the house in his absence; telling Beaumont that his "old bottle companion the Duke of Norfolk, has been stuffing the Corporation of Hereford with venison & turtle"; adding that the duke had invited him to a dinner but the invitation reached him just when he was about to take an emetic; discussing the use of emetics in the Roman period and describing how much and in what ways he has suffered from taking them; mentioning that this is the last frank Beaumont will have from "FitzPatrick" (probably Richard Fitzpatrick), "as he is going off this morning as well as Bob [Price's son]"; saying that all his family begs to be remembered to him and Lady Beaumont.