Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1804 February 18 : autograph manuscript signed.

Telling her that, based on what the Beaumonts tell him about Coleridge, he wishes he were with them in Dunmow, despite its "brick houses" and "tanyard"; quoting lines from Paradise Lost about odors; discussing a poem of his about the afterlife and "our own planet, which after all is the most interesting to us while we remain in this same coil"; describing problems with the volunteers and critiquing the prime minister's (Henry Addington, who Price refers to as "the Doctor") system for raising a military force; including an epigram he has recently composed on the subject; promising that he will come to Coleorton when George Dance is ready with his estimate; referring to a previous letter and mentioning franks and Richard Fitzpatrick; concluding "the very sound of his name made you think I was at my old persiflage, which I promise never to repeat, unless Sir George should ask me about the precise number of currants & of raisins that should be put in a pudding: in that case I declare war immediately."