Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1814 November 20 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking her for her last letter, particularly her measured response to what Price describes as "my little attack on you"; quoting (in Latin) Persius describing Horace; saying that if she pretends not understand this, Sir George can translate it for her and adding that he hopes he succeeded in making her smile, "as Horace did his friends"; mentioning that Lord Ashburnham stayed with them for two days and praising him: "He has a very happy mixture of natural & acquired good breeding, so that his civilities & attentions, though the manner is highly polished, never appear artificial"; remarking on how cheerful he is, despite "that terrible drawback, which so often sinks mine [i.e. Price's spirits], a bad digestion"; describing the two days they spent together and how they spent their time; saying that he wishes Ashburnham, Coleorton and Foxley could all be drawn closer together; asking for advice about cleaning his paintings; quoting at length from a description of Napoleon sent to him by a correspondent of his who was recently in Paris; describing Napoleon's last night at Fontainebleau: "nothing short of the three Furies with their serpents & torches could revenge the miseries he has inflicted on the human race"; commenting on garden work she is doing at Coleorton and a flower garden at Cassiobury; describing recommendations he made for landscaping around Bentley Prior and how they were received by the Abercorns; referring to the "cruel losses" Lord Abercorn has suffered: "He must have felt them most severely for he was very fond of his children: I hope, however, from Ld. Ashburnham's account he had tolerably well recovered his spirits."