Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1813 August 4 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking them for a "gargle" and asking from whom he can get a pair of gloves that Sir George had showed him; recalling landscaping work they had done together in a quarry at Coleorton and how eagerly Sir George was taking to it; saying he was sorry to have missed Lord and Lady Ashburnham; criticizing the design of the grounds at Sir Charles Hastings's estate, near Coleorton, and musing on the paradox of putting up boundaries around a carefully sculpted landscape, so that people passing by cannot see it; making suggestions that he wishes Beaumont would pass on to Hastings; praising the garden at Arbury Hall, particularly for its "cedars & other exotics of a large size," and mentioning that Lord Aylesford had praised the house as being "a good specimen of Gothic, & of old Sir Roger's taste; for he was his own architect"; describing an avenue of lime trees with a canal running through it; criticizing a similar avenue at Coleorton leading up to a urn in memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, with lines by Wordsworth inscribed on it; describing the problems he foresees with it, because of how closely the trees have been planted together; suggesting that they remove one of the rows, though saying that "nothing of course could be decided without the consent & approbation of Wordsworth" and he would not want to interfere with "such beautiful verses"; adding further arguments for a single row of limes; mentioning stopping at Guy's Cliffe House in Warwickshire, a necessary stop because of the heat, and saying "it is on a very small scale, but a little gem."