Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1816 October 27 : autograph manuscript signed.

Describing the vision in his afflicted eye: "it used to see clearly; it now sees every thing as through a mist; letters, whether in print or writing, all dance the hays"; saying that he takes particular care when he is clearing brush to protect the other eye; discussing the wet weather and quoting Milton and Ariosto; describing various weather conditions in terms of the concepts of "the sublime" and "the beautiful"; saying he wishes he were in the Lake District with the Beaumonts; writing "you seem always to be surrounded at Keswick by poets & painters & men of genius & talent in various ways: Wordsworth belongs to the lakes, as much as the fishes themselves: not that I mean to compare him to a fish [...] Southey is another swan of no feeble pinion; & I quite envy you the walk you took with two men [...] so worthy of viewing the scene you have so finely painted in words"; asking Beaumont to tell Wordsworth that Price is eager to consult with him on a work he is writing about "our most barbarous manner of pronouncing greek & latin verses"; stating his argument; saying that he could send his manuscript for Wordsworth's review if he will be spending the winter with the Beaumonts: "I judge him to be a person, who, if he thinks it worth while to criticize at all, is not likely to be mealy-mouthed"; mentioning his own criticisms of Wordsworth's poem The Excursion; saying that if he comes to London this year, he would be happy to stay with the Beaumonts; praising the character of Swinburne (possibly Sir John Swinburne), as well as his drawings; discussing tinted drawings and watercolors versus oil paintings; imagining what Titian, Rembrandt and Rubens might done in watercolor if they had been barred from using oils; commenting on Walpole's opinion of the caricaturist Henry Bunbury; discussing Bunbury's death and quoting from Gray's Elegy; telling a story he heard from Lord Somers about a fearless Irishman; inviting the Beaumonts to come stay with him at Foxley next summer; mentioning in a postscript a bottle of port he has set aside especially for Sir George and some Constantia similarly intended for Lady Margaret.