Letter from Uvedale Price, place not identified, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1805 October 5? : fragment of an autograph manuscript signed.

Describing different designs for wooded areas; recommending that she go through her woods and mark all the trees that "injure others, whether single or in groups, that would both look & grow better if they were removed"; adding "there are many others, which, though they do no injury, are of no advantage in point of beauty"; writing that another reason to take down a judicious number of trees is to avoid having to buy timber for repairs; discussing whether digging around the roots of old trees injures them; arguing that it does not and telling of her an experiment that proves this; advising her to dig around large roots and not to cut them off, "though we frequently see old trees in perfect health, after all the roots on one side have been cut off, or what is at least as bad, after a peice of water has been made on one side of them by which all the roots on that side must of course be destroyed"; asking her to thank Sir George for recommending a passage in a book, and the book itself; sending greetings from his family and saying that "FitzPatrick & Bob [his son] take their departure next week, the latter to Christ-Church"; adding in a postscript additional advice about dealing with treeroots on the surface.