Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1820 November 5 : autograph manuscript signed.

Describing the amusement produced by Sir George's last letter: "We were on a visit to our neighbours at Garnstone, where we met the family from Guy's Cliff, when your letter arrived: & there was no keeping it from Peploe or Greatheed when they saw Lady Caroline laughing till she cried. If you will write such letters, you cannot expect them to be private; every body would see, what made every body laugh; & your adventures with the old hag, & the young damsel are now as well known as any of the Queen's with Bergami. You would have been diverted to have seen Greatheed's fat sides shaking as he read it"; mentioning Sir George's criticisms of Guy's Cliff and saying that he and Greatheed talked over the design of the property: "it does want a great deal of doctoring, & we are to attack it next time I go there"; saying that the Greatheeds are about to visit them at Foxley along with a "Mr. & Mrs. Johnes Knight"; commenting on the age disparity between the Knights; mentioning the death of the Duchess of Norfolk: "You will be sorry to hear it, as the old oaks are in some danger, & as you are never likely to see them again with Mrs. Winkfield: you know how you were struck with her, how you kept by her all the way, how you lagged behind me & Miss Bodenham, & would hardly look at anything but her countenance"; including four lines of poetry by Price, referring to Lady Beaumont; sending him additional news about the Winkfields and discussing a piece of property on which William Sawrey Gilpin will be working, where "a number of old yews & fine old pollard oaks" were felled; adding that Knight (probably Richard Payne Knight) has visited him and is in good health: "He has read as much of my Epitome as was written fair, & talks of putting it into Latin & adding it to his Homer: you may imagine whether 'vanity tide' (as Mrs. Greville used to call it) is not very high with me"; saying he was particularly proud to hear that his argument has converted Dr. Samuel Parr: "I believe it is the greatest conversion since the time of St Paul"; mentioning in a postscript an engagement of Gilpin's and writing "I am rejoiced that he succeeds so well in his new profession."