1592991247000 1544089991000 Standard Record object-110005394 1747159740442 1544090360000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005394 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005394 833b8336-7aba-3069-87bd-4701c6d18d6b 4 person reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William person reference agent-198725 adlib-agent-198725 83917101-0070-3859-98d8-16272af795fc Stuart, Frances Coutts person reference agent-163945 adlib-agent-163945 d593bd74-e891-3fed-a7d9-87afcb3dbf9e Raimbach, Abraham person reference agent-198743 adlib-agent-198743 f851bdcb-7b2a-312b-b379-211444e61a68 Smithe, Mr content description 1 sheet folded Caroline Watson thanks Hayley for his gift of Cowper's Milton (4 volumes) and praises the frontispiece by Mr Smithe and Abraham Raimbach. She writes that she has heard that Lady Bute's health is much better, and that she hopes she will continue to be, as she always signed her letters, Watson's "constant friend". Watson adds that she thinks she has mentioned to Hayley that Lady Bute had sent her "a lock of her hair (which I had requested of her) mixed with one of Lady Frances & set in a little broach. I never yet have made the least mercenary sollicitation [sic] to her. And have ever received the favours she has bestowed upon me with the truest sense of gratitude and affection." Watson is "truly mortified and grieved that the Life of Romney has not been successful". She writes that she had not applied to Payne for any more money until "the April of the present year when I requested 30£ in the course of a month, which with great good nature & politeness he complied with. He then told me he had not received any thing from the publication. WHich I was very sorry to hear." She adds that she will not ask for more until the following year. "When I hope to hear a better account." She suspects her prints "are condemned without mercy as well as the Book" and says it's a pity "that some severe Satires are not written against the tribe of Reviewers. ... I hope the Publick will one day be freed. And permission given to each amateur of learning and the fine arts to think for himself." She continues that since she started the letter she has seen some relations of Lady Bute's and "They are melancholy truths I have to send you". Her friend was travelling home from Malta when she suffered a relapse, and is now to ill to "bear the motion of a carriage". She adds a PS "I entreat you to excuse the faults in this letter. In deep low spirits I am really hardly able to write. May it please God to bless & preserve you and yours. Hayley/XXVIII/93 1 accession number Hayley/XXVIII/93 110005394 priref 110005394 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005394 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005394 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1810 1810 1810 1810-07-14 1810 1 1810 1810 1810-07-17 reference agent-143196 adlib-agent-143196 553ba3a7-b866-3d46-98f8-3d9aa8493bda Watson, Caroline 1 letter Hayley/XXVIII/93 object OBJECT