Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1817 December 5 : autograph manuscript signed.

Discussing the poor acorn crop that year and saying "if the next season should be favorable, & you should like to have acorns from hence, our oaks will be very much flattered"; writing that he is glad to hear that Sir George has begun drawing a pond at Coleorton; making detailed suggestions for landscaping around the pond; suggesting that Lady Margaret put in rhododendron, juniper, viburnum, heather, holly, spurge laurel, barberry, dwarf birch, sweet gale, periwinkle, acanthus and other plants; describing the ideal growing conditions for these plants and what their aesthetic effect would be; describing the work he has been doing at Foxley and writing that "there are pictures in every tangled wood & thicket when the rubbish is removed: but what does, or does not constitute rubbish, is a very nice & a most important point: you must not destroy the appearance of intricacy & wildness in the near parts, nor injure the mass & general outline from a distance, & must take special care, while you are clearing to make one picture, not to sacrifice others in its neighbourhood"; describing the men working for him, "two most active climbers, & most dextrous pruners, armed with axes, pruning bills &c," and the process of framing certain views with deliberate pruning; mentioning that he has gone on at such length about this subject because of its interest to him and also because he is confined with a broken shin, "which I got in scrambling up a bit of a rock in pursuit of a new pathway"; discussing letters he has recently exchanged with Sir George.