Letter from Uvedale Price, Foxley, to Lady Margaret Beaumont, 1802 July 13 : autograph manuscript signed.

Commenting humorously on postmasters, postal addresses and the inadvisability of putting a county name on a letter; recommending that she read Charles James Fox's speech on the Duke of Bedford and saying that, if she read it in the newspaper, she should send for another copy, as it was "so mangled in the newspaper as to be almost nonsense"; mentioning that Fox sent him a copy of the speech personally; saying that he knows she thinks about all "opposers of government, just as sound Catholicks do with respect to hereticks"; quoting lines from Voltaire about ancient Greek philosophers and poets; describing Fox's speech about the Duke of Bedford as "a most finished and masterly portrait, drawn by a friend who knew him thoroughly, & both loved & admired him, but whose mind was too high for flattery"; saying that she and her husband will admire the speech based on the principles of painting, "for every feature is marked with the nicest discrimination, & in the most spirited manner, while the whole has the fullest & most striking effect"; mentioning that Amelia Opie has published a poem on the Duke of Bedford, "in which there are some most excellent passages, with others as bad"; including various verses on the Duke of Bedford and asking for her and her husband's opinions on them separately; saying that the verses are not all by the same author and that they are intended to be inscriptions for a bust of the duke; mentioning the recently deceased Lord Lonsdale, saying that his death has been as great a public benefit as Bedford's is a public loss, and including a stanza about Lonsdale's character; adding "No franking till after the 25th so you must pay for a double letter" and sending kind remembrances from his family to theirs.