Written from Foxley, Price's estate near Yazor, Herefordshire.
Address panel with postmarks: "Hereford August ten 1820 / Lady Beaumont / Cole Orton / Ashby de la Zouch / Robert Price."
This item was formerly identified as MA 1581 (Price) 91.
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.
Saying that it has occurred to him that the people to whom he has asked the Beaumonts to recommend William Sawrey Gilpin as a landscape architect, "however rich, & liberal of their money," might like to know Gilpin's terms; saying that he has just received them from Mrs. Peploe and he will send them to the Beaumonts, "as it strongly shews his wish to pay full attention to what he undertakes, & his determination to keep strictly to the very reasonable charges"; copying a passage from Gilpin's letter in which he sets out his terms in detail; saying that he thinks Gilpin's terms are "as moderate as possible," especially in comparison to Humphry Repton; describing an incident in which Repton billed someone excessively; giving the address at which Gilpin can be reached; thanking Lady Margaret for inscribing the book of Wordsworth's she had recently sent him; saying that he hopes to discuss the book with her in person; sending his "sharpest reproaches" to Sir George (for not having written him back).