BIB_ID
414508
Accession number
MA 1581.155
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1820 May 2.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 18.8 x 11.7 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 89.
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) 89.
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
Writing that his neighbor Sir John Cotterell has inherited a collection of paintings that Cotterell says consists of "all originals & of the best masters & among them one Claude"; mentioning that he wishes he could have Sir George's opinion of them; saying that they are currently being cleaned by a person recommended by George Hayter; discussing the weather and landscaping work he is doing at Foxley; writing that he looks forward to the Beaumonts' visit; quoting Latin verses from their Eton days; mentioning in a postscript that he has just received a parcel of books he had ordered, along with Lady Beaumont's letter and present; saying "the poems I shall read with the interest I feel in all that comes from such a mind as Wordsworth's" and asking whether Wordsworth would have time to look at his manuscript on pronunciation; mentioning how weak his eyes are; writing "If we had [been] to depute two persons to visit Switzerland, & in different ways, to paint the scenery it would have been you & Wordsworth. I envy him his feelings on first seeing the Alps; but hope at his return I shall be made to share them with him."
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