Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1804 April 21 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying that he would have liked to have had the chance to renew his acquaintance with Lord Maynard and recounting an incident that occurred at Vauxhall thirty years earlier; saying that he was with a group of men and women consisting of Lord Maynard, Sir John Stepney, Lord Derby, Lady Harcourt, Mrs. North, Lady Frances Fitzwilliam, Lady Almeria, and Lady Caroline Price, and that, as the men were paying the bill, the women went off on their own; writing that "soon after the Ladies scrambled up stairs with several young Bucks in pursuit of them"; describing both the men's and the women's responses to the situation; recounting how Mrs. North "clasped me in her arms so closely, that, had I wished, I could not have escaped"; saying that he has not seen Lord Dartmouth for a long time and commenting "if one wanted to paint the image of general benevolence & self-contentment he is the Model"; adding "You will think me as full of retrospections as Mrs. Piozzi, when I mention my having passed a remarkably pleasant day with him several years ago when he lived at Hayes, but I mention it, because single-speech Hamilton was there, who, when he chose to squeeze his poison bag, which he did pretty often, was as venomous as a rattle-snake; at Hayes, however, he was all brilliancy & playfulness, without any thing in the smallest degree sharp or sarcastic; & it struck me the more, as we had a dispute (before I had published any thing) about Mr. [Lancelot] Brown, of whom he was a great admirer, & of whom I probably did not speak in very guarded terms"; sending her three "bouts-rimès," a type of word game; explaining what they are, and that two of the verses were written by the Duc de Levi and the Comte de Grenoble and one by someone else: "I shall expect you to shew your acumen criticum in discovering the foreigner."