BIB_ID
414242
Accession number
MA 1581.120
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1804 April 4.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (6 pages) ; 23.5 x 18.9 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 54.
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.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 54.
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
Asking for news; telling Beaumont that he has begun to "make a peice of foreground, that is a bank to one of my pools" and it is proving to be an excellent chance for "trying the effect of my own principles"; describing the land around the pool; describing "mellow white" stones he found in a lime quarry and how he has placed them by the pool; adding that he also found rocks covered in moss and lichen, and he is placing them on top of the larger stones; describing the ferns and other vegetation he will add to the assemblage; saying that he has been using gunpowder to blow up "a large mass of limestone" for the project; describing the trees he plans to plant in the autumn along the bank; adding that this reminds him of a French poem he heard many years ago and including eight lines from the poem; mentioning that he has been in remarkably good health the whole of the previous month, except for one relapse.
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