Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1804 June 26 : autograph manuscript signed.

Criticizing the proposed alterations to Coleorton, which he describes as "compressing" the house; arguing to keep the conservatory a certain size: "it is a place to put your tenderest plants & creepers, a place where grapes would ripen without the assistance of your coal, & where you & Sir George will always sit in winter when you want to bask in the sun free from all winds"; saying that he is flattered that they have asked him to come see Coleorton before they begin to build and to advise them; adding "the choice of the particular compositions from the principal windows, mark the difference between a person who has formed his taste on the principles of painting, & a mere lover of prospects"; warning that the changes they plan to make would "destroy this favourite composition of mine" and "very much diminish the great pleasure I had in looking forward to all you were going to do [...] & I shall have the mortifying reflexion, that I had been of so little use with regard to the principal point on which I had been consulted"; saying that he is sure they would always regret this "ill-judged peice of œconomy"; arguing that there is no reason to "contract your rooms, & by that very means to spoil your view"; telling her about the decisions about window-placement he and his wife made when they were building their house in Aberystwyth; adding "as you have saved thousands by building only two rooms instead of a whole house you should not grudge a few hundreds to do what I am persuaded will be a source of pleasure to yourself"; saying that Lady Caroline and his daughter beg to be remembered to them.