BIB_ID
414318
Accession number
MA 1581.127
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1805 January 13.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages, with address) ; 23.2 x 18.9 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Dunmow / Essex."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 61.
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. / Dunmow / Essex."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 61.
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
Saying that he is grateful to Lady Beaumont for having copied out and sent him part of a letter by "Miss Wordsworth" (probably Dorothy); adding that his duties in the "justice-business" have not been heavy: "excepting two cases of bastard children I have not had a warrant to sign all this winter"; saying that he has returned to some writing he had long ago put aside, which may "swell by degrees into an essay"; asking if Sir George has seen the "infant Roscius" (the child-actor William Henry West Betty) and what he thinks of him; mentioning that Richard FitzPatrick had seen him in the play Douglas and "was quite surprized at some parts of his acting"; asking Sir George how his painting has been going; describing two of Beaumont's paintings that he would like to have for himself; saying that it is not only a privation, "but a disgrace, aye & an eternal disgrace" that he owns none of Beaumont's paintings; mentioning the damage done to the only painting of Beaumont's he had owned (see Price's letter dated April 23, 1801, cataloged as MA 1581.90, for background on this); describing various drawings of Beaumont's; saying that he saw James Cranston the previous day and that Cranston wished to remind Sir George of "the thinning of the wood at Coleorton where he began to make walks, & where you know I worked like a horse that I might teach your men to under-lash, as we call it, by example as well as precept"; conveying the news that Harriet Cornewall is marrying a "Mr. Lewis of Harpton," the relative of a friend of theirs: "it is not a brilliant match, but one they are much pleased with as they have seen a great deal of him at Moccas & like him extremely."
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