Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1820 January 10 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing that he is busily employed in "my usual occupation of picture-making with the materials of Nature, & with a constantly encreasing delight"; adding that there is enough work to take up "five hundred years [...] & five hundred thousand pounds"; describing the natural processes that lead to "glades & openings" and saying "nothing is so bad as one universal thicket"; describing the work he has been doing to create open spaces, based on artistic principles; saying that he wishes Foxley could serve as an example to other "improvers" for their estates; telling Sir George that he has nearly completed his work on the pronunciation of ancient Latin and Greek; adding that he wishes Sir George would read it, despite his rusty Greek, because "you have so nice an ear for tones in speaking, for all that relates to articulation, & to the modulation of the voice"; saying he would also be very glad to have Wordsworth read it before it goes to print; discussing the relative merits of Virgil, Homer and Shakespeare; comparing Achilles to Hotspur; saying that it is no use reading Pope or Cowper's translations of Homer, "for the spirit of the original, though in very different ways, evaporates in both translations"; urging Sir George to brush up on his Greek and asking how Lady Margaret's studies of Greek are going; mentioning the Grenville edition of Homer, saying that he is tempted to get a copy and asking if they remember what the price of it is; thanking the Beaumonts for a picture (mentioned also in MA 1581.152) and mentioning that he has hung it under a portrait of Lady Almeria Carpenter by Sir Joshua Reynolds; saying he is impatient to hear from them and sending compliments of the season.