BIB_ID
414535
Accession number
MA 1581.158
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1820 August 24.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 18.8 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Coleorton / Ashby de la Zouch."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 92.
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.
Address panel with postmarks: "Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Coleorton / Ashby de la Zouch."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 92.
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
Thanking Sir George warmly for his letter; saying how much he looks forward to the prospect of having Sir George visit Foxley, though he regrets that Lady Margaret will not be coming, absorbed as she is in "the eternal city, Mount Vesuvius &ca &ca"; saying that he has a "montagnetta" at Foxley, but it does not spit fire; adding that he hopes Sir George has received a letter from William Sawrey Gilpin setting a date for his arrival at Coleorton; writing "I am ready to receive you both, & I need not say with what pleasure, whenever you are ready to come"; inviting him to stay for a week or longer and not to be hurried: "I have not seen you these many years, & have much to shew you, & not only in my own place"; mentioning certain trees at "your late drunken friend's the Duke of Norfolk's" and referring to Beaumont's former drinking prowess; describing one of the trees as "the grandest tree both for size & character, I ever beheld"; mentioning in a postscript an uprising in Naples.
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