Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1804 June 9 : autograph manuscript signed.

Commenting on the recent heat; asking Lady Margaret to tell Sir George that "I don't at all wonder at his having suggested so excellent a remedy for the wounded witch elm: having been once so great an uncorker of bottles, it is natural he should become a corker of trees"; quoting from Horace via Farnaby's Rhetoric; saying that he thinks her plan for landscaping around an elm tree is impracticable and possibly unnecessary; making an alternate suggestion in order to secure a bank; suggesting planting sycamores and horse chestnuts on the bank of a pool; listing other trees suitable for wet soils (alders, willows, poplars and planes); discussing the look of certain trees in terms of "massiness" and "lightness"; citing the birch as especially hardy and adaptable; giving her advice on the process of transplanting larger trees; recommending flowering shrubs for near the house; writing that he hopes George Dance, with his plans for additions to the house, will not ruin a favorite view of Price's; mentioning his ideas about where a nursery should be placed and saying that James Cranston may already have discussed this with them; adding that Lady Caroline and Richard Payne Knight both approve of the proposed changes to the old house, though he has some reservations; referring to a portrait of himself; describing the landscaping work he is doing at Foxley: "the delightful paths I am making through absolute bowers of hollies thorns & yews among magnificent oaks, &ca, the little Laghettinini (for there cannot be too many diminuatives) that I am making in this wood under some of the most beautifully formed & tinted masses of lime rock you ever beheld, & which little lakes of the size of dining tables will be chrystal itself & perfect mirrors...".