BIB_ID
414489
Accession number
MA 1581.151
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1818 December 21.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.5 x 11.2 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 85.
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.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 85.
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
Discussing different types of sycamores he has at Foxley; reminiscing about visiting them at Dunmow: "I always think with particular pleasure of the days I passed with you, & remember every circumstance within & without doors; of lively conversations, rides to Domesday Oak, &ca &ca. I remember too, ne vous en deplaise, your looking so remarkably well, that if I had had a grain less of love & regard for Sir George, I should have felt very much disposed to 'Teach my lovely scholar all I know,' & not about clearing & pruning"; talking of his advanced age; writing "Altri tempi, altre cure; & were I to be carried to the Idalian grove & its old inhabitants, I should be thinking how to conduct the walks through it, & how to make, -- tho' with particular caution in such a grove, -- an opening or two; & should consider the Nymphs, the Graces, & Venus herself as figures in my landscapes."
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