Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1803 October 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying that he has just heard news that will terrify Richard Payne Knight: "It is said that Prince William of Glocester, who in his progress through Shropshire & North Wales has been looking at every thing with a military, & consequently a most unpicturesque eye, has suggested to Government that Ludlow Castle would be an excellent place of confinement for french prisoners, if part of it was pulled down, and, -- horresco referens! two brick wings were added to it. How little we can estimate the variety & extent of the ill consequences of war!"; writing that Cromwell "demolished or injured many a noble castle" but that if the ones that remain are to be given wings like "little [Mackan] angels," Price wishes that he had taken them all down; describing how sorry he was not to be able to accompany James Cranston to Coleorton and saying that his health is improving; ascribing the improvement to dining at a later hour and resting afterwards; asking whether she has ever read anything by Vincent Voiture and saying that he has been reading his letters from Spain; comparing him unfavorably to Madame de Sévigné, "who never fails to make you acquainted & intimately acquainted, with every person in her society, & has besides a thousand ingenious thoughts admirably expressed, & which never appear to be sought after"; including a poem of Voiture's, as an "excellent specimen of his style."