Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1816 September 17 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking him for a letter and discussing aspects of their correspondence (how long it takes Sir George to write back, etc); chiding Sir George lightly for not writing him sooner with a "petit mot de consolation" about the accident that caused Price to lose vision in one eye; discussing the importance of sight and quoting from Milton's Samson Agonistes on the vulnerability of eyes; saying that we ought to have "a very comfortable provision of spare eyes" but since we do not, we must take good care of them; recounting an eye injury suffered recently by a young member of the Scudamore family and warning Sir George against "riding madly after a stray deer" or other activities in the course of which he could injure his eyes; saying that Sir Henry Englefield had just come to see him and had brought some sketches by Swinburne (probably Sir John Swinburne) of Lynton, Devonshire; saying that he showed Englefield a letter that he had received long ago from Thomas Gainsborough in which the latter gave an account of the same area; writing that he wished he could have seen Sir George's exhibition; condemning "those dreadful scowerers the Dealers" and saying that "if any warning voice could be of use, it would be yours & that of the Institution; I raised mine many years ago to little purpose"; referring to the weather and saying that if they had had the same weather in the Lake District as he had in Herefordshire "Lodore, indeed, must have been raging & foaming; but I know you like him best when he is not brimful, & when you can creep up from cascade to cascade"; including a punning Latin quotation about rain that Price says was used often when he was at Eton; writing approvingly of new changes the Beaumonts have made at Coleorton; describing the "striking views & compositions" he has been creating at Foxley; saying that Sir George is lucky his eye is tired, otherwise he would write about it all in great detail; adding that he has written this letter in stages and asking to be remembered to Lady Beaumont.