BIB_ID
414238
Accession number
MA 1581.119
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1804 February 20.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (1 page, with address) ; 20.6 x 12.6 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Lady Beaumont / Dunmow / Essex."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 53.
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: "Lady Beaumont / Dunmow / Essex."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 53.
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
Referring to his letter from February 18 (cataloged as MA 1581.118) and enclosing a revised version of his epigram on Addington and the volunteers; asking "How does Sir George bear these sudden changes of weather? You and L[ad]y Caroline are iron: I continue pretty stout"; asking finally "Do you know the subject of Mr. Coleridge's new poem? I am naturally anxious about my own immortality."
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