Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1822 November 12 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying that Sir George's letter from Berne was "one of the most interesting letters I ever received"; lamenting the death of Antonio Canova and saying that Sir George's letter about him made Price feel as if he knew him intimately; commenting on Sir George's reaction to meeting Canova ("No man, since the sad loss of Sir Joshua has attached me so much") and the melancholy pleasure he will have in remembering their acquaintance; mentioning a sculpture that Sir George purchased; comparing Canova to Michelangelo; saying that he has a pen drawing by Michelangelo that had belonged to the collector Mariette, with a Latin inscription from the latter on the mounting; giving the inscription and saying that it could also apply to the sculpture Sir George purchased; mentioning how diverted they were by Sir George's account of the bugs in Turin; writing that he wishes he could have been with Sir George to see "the sudden & awful death of Mont Blanc"; commenting at length on Sir George's account of it; saying of himself "Mine certainly has not been a life of adventures; here I have been, & here I am, much as you left me; with a year or two & an ail or two more, but upon the whole as active in mind & body as most men of 75"; writing of his happiness at being engaged in new improvements at Foxley, "amidst such thickets & bowers of hollies mixed with yews & forest trees, such treasures of richness & intricacy that it would do your heart good to see them"; describing how he would like to take the Beaumonts on a ride around the property.