BIB_ID
414545
Accession number
MA 1581.160
Creator
Price, Uvedale, Sir, 1747-1829, sender.
Display Date
Foxley, England, 1820 October 1.
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages, with address) ; 23.3 x 19 cm
Notes
Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Hereford October one 1820 / Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Cole Orton / Ashby de la Zouch / Robert Price."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 94.
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: "Hereford October one 1820 / Sir George Beaumont Bart. / Cole Orton / Ashby de la Zouch / Robert Price."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 94.
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 him for a letter and saying that he and his family were delighted to hear that Sir George enjoyed his visit to Foxley; inviting both Beaumonts to return next year; complimenting Lady Margaret on using a new pen to write her last letter; promising to send her his Epitome (a work on pronunciation) when he has a spare copy available: "some parts I think may amuse & interest her, particularly the illustrations from english italian poetry"; mentioning that he has tried it in small doses on Sir George and it does not seem to have had an ill effect; asking Sir George to tell William Sawrey Gilpin, if he has not already left Coleorton, that they are ready and happy to receive him at Foxley; reminding Sir George to send him the exact wording of Hogarth's advice on composition; commenting in a postscript on the scowles at Lydney; mentioning that his eyes are still weak or he would have written more..
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