Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1827 October 31 : autograph manuscript signed.

Confirming that she has received his essay on pronunciation and asking if she would convince Wordsworth to write down his response to it when he comes to Coleorton; discussing arguments in the essay that he thinks have not been made before; responding to a piece of writing by Coleridge on the same topic and saying he believes they are largely in agreement; commenting at length on meter in the pronunciation of English words; arguing that "our metre is regulated by quantity no less than that of the ancients, tho' less strictly"; adding "That Coleridge should have thought at all of english hexameters surprises me: the structure & genius of our language is quite unsuited to them"; discussing the possibility of coming to Coleorton the following summer; writing "Your organ & your dilettante performer, & professor, I shall hear with pleasure; but want no other inducement than the interest I take in all that concerns so old a friend"; apologizing in a postscript for the untidiness of the letter and explaining that it was written in a hurry; thanking her for offering to send him Christabel but saying that he is afraid he would mislay it: "I may perhaps beg for it at some future time."