Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1824 October 8 : autograph manuscript signed.

Describing the morning arrival of the Wordsworths at Foxley: "they had come a long way, & having set out very early in the morning, were, I believe, very glad to find breakfast on the table, & they both of them -- as Kate said of Johnny -- 'eat it pretty well to my thinking[']: if you do not know who Kate & Johnny are Sir George does"; describing taking the Wordsworths to see a part of the estate where Price had created different views of a hill, the Skerrit: "They seemed much pleased with the scenery itself, & with what I had done: Wordsworth's taste & feeling you yourself can hardly think more highly of than I do"; praising Wordsworth's prose writing about the Lake District and saying that it should be "the manual of every person who visits those parts; above all of those who settle there, & who so often cut down, plant, & build in such a manner, as to call down the execrations of every one who has a grain of natural taste or feeling on them & their works"; describing Mary Wordsworth's remarks on the scenery as "very just & discriminating; they were never obtrusive, never from a wish to attract notice, but simply from what she felt"; saying that his wife Caroline liked her very much as well; adding that they were sorry they could not stay longer and would be pleased to see them again; writing that he wishes he could come see the Wordsworths at Coleorton, but his age and the distance makes it unlikely: "I heartily wish it was not above 30 miles off, or, what I should like better, that I was not above 30 years old"; requesting that the "Gods [...] annihilate a certain quantity of space & time" and make them all younger, "you to be twenty, Sir George fix or six & twenty, & I about thirty"; saying that he is currently so busy that he could not come "even if this little boon were granted"; concluding "What a parcel of nonsense have I been writing! &, as my son is absent you must pay for it" (probably a reference to the younger Price's franking privileges).