BIB_ID
414620
Accession number
MA 1581.197
Creator
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.
Display Date
Cults, Scotland, 1807 June 30. .
Credit line
Purchased from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1959.
Description
1 item (2 pages, with address) ; 25.0 x 20.0 cm
Notes
This letter is from a large collection of letters written to Sir George Howland Beaumont (1753-1827) and Lady Margaret Willes Beaumont (1758-1829) of Coleorton Hall and to other members of the Beaumont family. See collection-level record for more information (MA 1581.1-297).
This letter formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wilkie) 4.
Address panel with postmarks and fragments of a seal to "Sir George Beaumont, Bart / Keswick / Cumberland / to be left at / the office / till called for."
There is a penciled paragraph following the letter, in an unknown hand, saying "The figure of the moon in the water tho elongated had not lost its form it was as it were divided into slices - the ripling of the water above the reflection of the main body caught the light in sparkles or rather in waving lines which had the appearance of illumined worms where the stream being very active moved with great velocity & were perpetually appearing & vanishing - I never saw a more brilliant & beautiful effect."
This letter formerly identified as MA 1581 (Wilkie) 4.
Address panel with postmarks and fragments of a seal to "Sir George Beaumont, Bart / Keswick / Cumberland / to be left at / the office / till called for."
There is a penciled paragraph following the letter, in an unknown hand, saying "The figure of the moon in the water tho elongated had not lost its form it was as it were divided into slices - the ripling of the water above the reflection of the main body caught the light in sparkles or rather in waving lines which had the appearance of illumined worms where the stream being very active moved with great velocity & were perpetually appearing & vanishing - I never saw a more brilliant & beautiful effect."
Provenance
Purchased as a gift of the Fellows from Benjamin Ifor Evans, 1954.
Summary
Concerning his ill health since he in Scotland; saying he has been unable to work as he told Sir George he would as he "...was seized with a severe fever which has not only prevented me from doing any thing ever since but obliged me to confine myself a great part of the time to bed. I have however the happiness to find myself by Medical assistance and the care and attention of my friends so far recovered as to be able to walk or ride in the fields and I expect soon to begin some studys from nature for which there are several very good subjects in this neighbourhood. I was much gratifyed by your kind letter - I may even say it has contributed to my recovery. The frank and open manner in which you give me your opinion, and advice, are testimonies of your friendship that I consider myself happy in being favoured with;" sending his compliments and those of his parents and asking to be remembered to Mr. Wordsworth.
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