Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1818 December 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

Discussing the verb "to crab" and quoting four lines by the 16th-century poet Alexander Scott; saying that he is currently writing about "english accent & quantity, & the very striking change that took place in them between the age of Chaucer & that of Shakespear," and this has meant he has been making use of George Ellis's Specimens of the Early English Poets; thanking Lady Beaumont for loaning him "Wordsworth's highly poetical effusion" and saying that he has followed her orders strictly, making no copy of the manuscript and returning it to her "after reading it repeatedly"; commenting briefly on it; promising to send Wordsworth the work he is writing on pronunciation when Price feels it is "fit for his inspection"; thanking Sir George for having written to his son Robert; saying what pleasure any visit from the Beaumonts, expected or unexpected, would bring him; telling them of the landscaping he has been doing at Foxley and how much he enjoys it; saying he often wishes he could steal land from Lord Bridgewater, "a few odd thousands, which no man could so easily, or would so unwillingly spare," to turn the "whole place [...] into one magnificent picture gallery"; responding to a question about sycamores.