1592991247000 1543496761000 Standard Record object-110005378 1747159742264 1543501093000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005378 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005378 2faa21f7-2075-3a95-8665-97c1b1f1a98e 4 person reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William person reference agent-198513 adlib-agent-198513 a9d95357-0469-3c13-8cf0-9619e1fb99bb Hayley, Mary Welford person reference agent-198724 adlib-agent-198724 045ab837-8bb0-308a-b8cb-b1ff3e74edca Stuart, John, 1st Marquess of Bute person reference agent-198725 adlib-agent-198725 83917101-0070-3859-98d8-16272af795fc Stuart, Frances Coutts content description 1 sheet folded Caroline Watson writes "I am very sorry we wree prevented from having the happiness of seeing you & dear Mrs. Hayley again before your return into Sussex" particularly because Hayley was ill. She has yet to receive a copy of "Hayley's Life of Romney", from Payne (the publisher), but offers Hayley ""many many thanks for your intention of presenting it to me. She writes that "there must have been some mistake with respect to my writing to you relative to the drawing after Raphael [completed at Luton Hoo]. My aunt said that I must write to Lady Bute for permission before I could promise to dispose of it". Watson then explains that she copied the picture with the permission of Lord Bute, which was given "at the request of her Ladyship & upon her bounty my Aunt & myself live when at Luton Park. If therefore before any one of the prints is engraved I should ask leave to sell a drawing it would appear as if I designed to take advantage of her kindness to make a little ready money without an intention of making the engravings I told her of. This could not fail in injuring me in her opinion.. I entreat you therefore not to send me the 30 guineas until I can say to a sertainty whether it shall be yours. For it may be that My Lord will object to a copy being sold of so favourite a picture." At the time of writing Watson is working on an engraving of the Bishop of Durham, and once she has finished she hopes to visit Luton Park again "to gain a little strength ... before I undertake my great work." She writes how much she and her aunt value Hayley's friendship (and that of Mrs Hayley) "which we rely on as sincere. And we most sincerely wish you both length of days and every happiness that can attend the marriage state." Hayley/XXVIII/90 1 accession number Hayley/XXVIII/90 110005378 priref 110005378 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005378 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005378 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1809 1809 1809-06-28 reference agent-143196 adlib-agent-143196 553ba3a7-b866-3d46-98f8-3d9aa8493bda Watson, Caroline 1 letter Hayley/XXVIII/90 object OBJECT