Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1827 August 19 : autograph manuscript signed.

Saying that he is glad to hear that she has "struggled with the feelings & associations, which at first must have been most painful [a reference to the death of her husband Sir George earlier that year], & are able to resume, with some degree of interest, your former occupations"; offering his encouragement and assistance; mentioning that he had previously been been forced to have his son Robert's help in writing to her, due to illness, but "now that I am up, & tolerably well, I will not part with the pleasure of writing to you myself"; writing that he is glad to hear Wordworth will be with her in the autumn: "his strength of mind will, as you say, give you support, & the interest of his society & conversation, revive your spirits"; discussing a past observation of his about the winter garden at Coleorton and the difficulty of being strict about pruning; recommending that she remove the firs, "as requiring space, & as injurious to what is under their drip"; making additional suggestions about pruning, removing and transplanting various trees; describing how different trees, such as the arbutus and the holly, respond differently to pruning; describing how to prune and maintain a Portugal laurel; saying that when Wordworth is at Coleorton he will be able to give her even better advice, being on the spot; telling her that he has been "printing -- not publishing -- a considerable part of what has occupied me for some years," a work on the "modern pronunciation of the Greek & Latin"; saying that it is a "dry subject" of possibly limited interest to her, but "I will beg you to accept a copy as a mark of my true & affectionate regard"; asking if she could prevail on Wordsworth to read it and send him his comments: "by his own account he has never turned his mind to the subject: no matter; a mind like his so fully stored, if once turned to it, will discover more than most others who have made it their study"; describing George Canning's death as "a great loss, public & private" and saying that he had known him for many years but rarely had the opportunity to spend time with him; commenting on Canning's career and saying that a successor of "still greater abilities, & a more enlarged & accurate view of affairs both at home & abroad" would be comparatively useless without the influence over the King that Canning had; thanking her for offering him some of Sir George's drawings: "I shall be proud of shewing them to those who are worthy, as his performance, & as your gift"; saying he would like to come to Coleorton next summer, if he is alive, and inviting her to Foxley with similar caveats: "You in return, if we are both alive, s'entend, must come & see what I have been doing here since your last visit: 'tis only a little; but the little I am able to do gives me great pleasure & satisfaction"; adding in a postscript that his essay will take some time to reach her because many press errors need to be corrected.