Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1818 October 31 : autograph manuscript signed.

Commenting on the recent election of his son Robert to Parliament and reassuring Sir George about his politics: "my son is as far from being a democrat, or from having any wild notion about reform, as yourself, & with just as little fancy for annual parliaments & universal suffrage"; describing the course of the election in great detail, with particular focus on the role of Sir George Cornewall and his son; writing of his son Robert that "he has a remarkably right head, an active & reflecting mind, with cool judgment & firm decision. Being of no profession, his mind & faculties had little employment; they now will be fully employed; & I feel very sure that though, perhaps, he may not make a brilliant figure, his conduct will be consistent & strictly honorable; & that he will neither do nor say anything in parliament that his friends will have reason to be ashamed of. I wish there were many more in the house equally removed from the two extremes"; describing landscaping work he has been doing at Foxley and saying that he has made such a number of "compositions" with trees and views around one walk that a friend of his has begun to call it his "picture galley."