Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Sir George Beaumont, 1823 March 11 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking him for a portrait of Antonio Canova and calling Canova's face "extremely picturesque"; saying that it is unlikely he will come to London or to visit them at Coleorton, though he regrets missing the opportunity to see them and enjoy Wordsworth's conversation; sympathizing with them over the death of a Lady Georgina in childbirth, though he had never met her and knew of her only through Sir George's description; commenting "I have on various occasions felt great delight in watching the expression of a pleasing & interesting female countenance, when looking at beautiful objects of sight, or listening to beautiful sounds; & have always felt my own pleasure in the pictures, scenery, or music, very much enhanced by it: in this disposition of mind, I have been figuring to myself Lady Georgina, standing, as you have described her, before the Transfiguration, & your pleasure in observing the genuine feelings expressed in her countenance"; discussing the health and doings of mutual friends, including Richard Payne Knight; describing Knight's "hermitage" built in a dingle, Stonebrook Cottage, at Downton as lonely and dreary; saying that Knight was "miserably ill & low" there and has since gone to London for treatment; mentioning that he has been corresponding a great deal with Knight about his edition of Homer, though Knight was worried "that his mind would not ever be equal to much exertion; & that he might end by being a card-player & a novel-reader"; talking of Knight's and his own digestion; ending the letter with short epigram in French about good and bad stomachs.