BIB_ID
414330
Accession number
MA 1581.131
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1805 July 17.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.5 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Price gives only "Wednesday" for the date of writing. However, July 17, 1805 is listed on the address panel (though not apparently in Price's hand) and in 1805, July 17th fell on a Wednesday.
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Hereford July seventeen / 1805 / Lady Beaumont / Cole Orton hall / Ashby de la Zouch / R. FitzPatrick."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 65.
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.
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Hereford July seventeen / 1805 / Lady Beaumont / Cole Orton hall / Ashby de la Zouch / R. FitzPatrick."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 65.
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 very happy that she is "inclined to become a farmer, as well as an improver"; adding that he approves of her plan to enrich her land by "ploughing in a crop of Swedish Turnips"; suggesting that the best plant of all for this purpose is buckwheat; discussing procuring orange trees: "when I am in want of a fresh supply I send to an Italian warehouse in London, & desire that the moment the Spring Ships arrive with them, that I may have such a number, of such a size"; describing how he tends and transplants the trees when they arrive at Foxley; saying that he is sure she and Sir George will "find the greatest amusement in what you are going to do, & I make no doubt that under your directions l'utile et l'agreable will be happily blended"; inviting them to visit.
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