Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1816 January 28 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking Lady Beaumont for her exertions on behalf of "our deaf & dumb boy, by name Tom Cox"; saying that he now has the use of only one eye and describing how he feels about this; describing how it affects his reading and writing; saying how much of a comfort his family is to him; adding that he is glad he avoided marrying an unnamed "lady of high birth," for whose hand his and her relatives were negotiating at a certain point in his youth; referring disparagingly to a certain "Lady Lucas" who he says is very like the woman he might have married; saying "I have been told that she is full of learning, & has a number of good qualities; it may be so: but she has one, which, in a wife particularly, makes them all of no avail -- that of being supremely disagreable in person & manners"; saying that their invitation to come with them to the Lake District is a great temptation, but he must turn it down: "it seems to be our destiny to pass year after year at a distance from one another, & sometimes eight or nine months without even conversing by letter"; responding to their account of different opinions on the form and placement of a monument in London: "we are all for the arch, in preference to obelisk, column, statue, or even church"; giving reasons in support of an arch; suggesting that "Britannia might be placed on the summit of the arch, surveying the glories of her imperial city"; sending greetings from his family.