BIB_ID
414302
Accession number
MA 1581.124
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1804 July 10.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 22.4 x 18.2 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Coleorton Hall / near / Loughborough."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 58.
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: "Sir George Beaumont Bart / Coleorton Hall / near / Loughborough."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 58.
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
Complimenting Sir George's verses, both as delivered by him in person and written down: "I now therefore confirm the opinion I gave you when & I were riding on the Dickey between St Albans & Woburn; that it is a most excellent supplement to Goldsmith. But this is not all; I have two female critics in the house, & as sharp a pair of critics as ever scratched an author, as I know by experience, & they both most highly approve; & I must tell you that after L[ad]y Caroline had read them, & had given me back the letter, she desired to have it again, & read them a second time with the same pleasure, & made a copy of them: & moreover they are to be written on a vacant leaf of Goldsmith's works in my very best hand"; mentioning encountering a Mr. and Mrs. Rice near Coleorton; saying that Lady Margaret has undoubtedly received his "Philippic on the proposed compression of the house" (see the previous letter, MA 1581.122); remarking on other changes they have made; adding "I perfectly agree with you that a pool so near the house should be dressed, & that the banks should not be left rude"; discussing the technique of "undermining" which he believes is "the only method by which you can artificially make a painter's broken foreground"; saying that he looks forward to visiting them and seeing "the effect of all that has been pulled down, & all that has been put up, provided always there is no compression, & that I can stand in the bow window of the drawing room, & see the best hill in the best place"; adding some minor criticisms of Beaumont's verses; copying down lines from Beaumont's poem with the changes incorporated and saying "You will be surprised when you open this letter to cast your eye on your own verses, but I hope will not be angry that your friend has attempted to garble & mend them."
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