Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1822 December 2 : autograph manuscript signed.

Writing "[t]he more I hear of Canova, the more I regret him; your whole account of his kindness & exertions at the Vatican in spite of illness & depression, of your last parting, & the pressure of his hand, is quite affecting"; mentioning Canova and a work by Michelangelo: "You had not mentioned in your former letter, that, in all respects, most valuable instance of his attachment, when it got the better of his patriotism, so that he not only did not prevent the M. Angelo from being taken away but furnished all the means & facilities"; returning a mutual friend's letter and saying that it did him a great deal of good; discussing the pleasures of "talking nonsense"; asking if Sir George has ever read The Sketch Book by Geoffrey Crayon (a pseudonym used by Washington Irving); saying that he read and enjoyed it; recommending Irving's Bracebridge Hall as well, particularly the story titled "The Stout Gentleman"; mentioning that he is preparing his work on pronunciation for publication, while engaged in several controversies about it; saying that he finds this bracing: "when I find myself rather jaded in revising, altering & curtailing my Essay, a little opposition revives me"; including a line in Italian; saying that he is anxious to have Wordsworth's opinion of his essay before it goes to press; adding that if Wordsworth came to visit his brother-in-law, he would be "within a hop step & jump of me, & I should receive him with open arms"; writing in a postscript that Sir George should read Irving's Sketch Book before Bracebridge Hall.