Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1820 December 13 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying that he is very flattered by Wordsworth's interest in his work on pronunciation and would very much like to send it to him for his comments, but he fears losing it in transit and he has no other fair copy; complimenting Sir George's previous letters and humorously refusing to burn them; promising that he only showed his last letter to a few people, and then only because his wife Caroline was laughing so hard at it that friends nearby became interested; mentioning that William Sawrey Gilpin has been at Foxley for ten days and they have discussed "various points of improvement" at length; describing Gilpin as "very eager, very observing, with great relish for nature & art"; adding that though Gilpin is "a very civil & obliging person he has nothing of the flatterer about him: he speaks his mind plainly; & on one or two points where he differed from me, I think he was right & shall adopt his suggestions"; suggesting that Sir George recommend him to Lord Ashburnham; recalling a past visit to Gilpin that Price and Beaumont had made after seeing and liking a drawing of his, "a study of Beech trees," in an exhibition of "part of Mr. Lockes Park at Norbury" (probably a reference to William Lock); sending greetings from his wife and family to Lady Margaret and to Wordsworth; reiterating how much he wishes to show Wordsworth what he has been writing.