BIB_ID
414422
Accession number
MA 1581.146
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1817 June 13.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 22.7 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Lady Beaumont / Grosvenor Square."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 80.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
Address panel with postmarks: "Lady Beaumont / Grosvenor Square."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 80.
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall, and to other members of the Beaumont family.
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Describing his suffering during an illness: "I have been obliged to give up two great sources of amusement on such an occasion; for my nerves have been so affected, as to make me unable to listen either to reading or music"; saying that his recourse during this time was to his memory, "which luckily contains a large quantity of favorite parts of favorite poets in different languages & different metres; & this formed a little library, from which I could take a book according to my fancy, & without any obligation to my eyes, hands, or legs"; mentioning his views on the pronunciation of classical poetry and his interest in the poets of that period; describing the good care he has had; saying that he is still feeble, "& instead of roaming amidst my woods & thickets hacker in hand, I can only crawl about the gravel walks with the help of a stick; & if I prune the dead twig of a rose, I consider it as a feat"; describing this as a "very dull & melancholy history" but promising to write them as soon as he can "cut a caper [...] for I know you will both rejoice at any return of my bodily activity, as that of the mind is sure to accompany it"; adding that he has received a very kind letter from Lord Aberdeen, but that he must "rest some days after the herculean task I have just been performing"; sending greetings from his wife and daughter to Lady Margaret and her husband.
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