1592991247000 1542902087000 Standard Record object-110005348 1747159741469 1542904073000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005348 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005348 864f2d6e-56f7-3489-91a6-77c5ab294988 4 person reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William person reference agent-198705 adlib-agent-198705 0383b38d-090f-378f-83f1-1529d0fc1b09 Courtenay, Mr person reference agent-45771 adlib-agent-45771 b9e1e92c-edf1-3a4c-a4eb-f5fbaae070a3 Flaxman, John person reference agent-198508 adlib-agent-198508 50d07c6a-6fd4-382e-b420-0eb4d4fecaa8 Poole, Henrietta person reference agent-198687 adlib-agent-198687 3a8144d9-012d-3212-a710-cba2907c4679 Beke, Margaret content description 1 sheet folded Caroline Watson writes that after leaving "Miss Poole's delightful Villa on Friday sennight," they (presumably Watson and her aunt) "had a very pleasant journey to town". She delivered Hayley's letter to Mr Courtenay the following day, giving it to his mother Mrs Lambeth (Courtenay was away). She then called on Flaxman who was out of town, but expected back soon, and left Hayley's letter to him there. William Haines (engraver/printmaker) called and she was sorry to see him so ill. He admired her drawings [of Romney). Watson writes that since returning to London she has been lookibng for new lodgings: "I find I cannot get a first & second floor in any situation convenient for me, at a less rent than four or six and forty pounds a year, a first floor with the use of a servant thirty. I lament therefore that I am under the necessity to decline the taking of little Fanny". The costs of "so charitable an act as the upport of an orphan" would "encrease my expenditure to more than I can afford". She also points out to Hayley that "if you will please to reconsider the thing, I think you will see that the two characters of pupil & servant cannot be united in the same person. The steady attention which drawing & engraving requires must not be interrupted by domestick business." "When I had written thus far", she continues "Mr Flaxman called in, he approved of the drawings very much." She told Flaxman that Hayley expected to see him at Felpham, but Flaxman said it would be impossible for him to visit that year. Watson and her aunt thank Hayley "for all the kindness & friendship you showered upon us" and also send their "kind respects" to Miss Poole, and Watson asks him to tell Peggy (Margaret Beke) that "my coffee is not so good as what she used to bring me". Hayley/XXVIII/86 1 accession number Hayley/XXVIII/86 110005348 priref 110005348 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005348 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005348 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1806 1806 1806-09-08 reference agent-143196 adlib-agent-143196 553ba3a7-b866-3d46-98f8-3d9aa8493bda Watson, Caroline 1 letter Hayley/XXVIII/86 object OBJECT