1592997946000 1550144006000 Standard Record object-110005472 1747159749307 1550159632000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005472 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005472 895b89e1-c77d-3b95-bee9-63a52811bdd9 4 person reference agent-176447 adlib-agent-176447 b3c0957c-e2ac-335c-a1b1-974d32f8a466 Pitt, William, The Younger person reference agent-30018 adlib-agent-30018 321a3727-985c-3940-a487-9961882115a4 Copley, John Singleton person reference agent-191431 adlib-agent-191431 e4922357-15c6-3550-814e-3d918358c9ad Chatham, 1st Earl of content description 1 sheet folded Copy of letter to unnamed correspondent, identified as William Pitt the Younger as Hayley refers to an earlier meeting (when Pitt was 14), his recent entry into public life (Pitt was first elected to Parliament in early 1781) and explains that he is sending him a book (Hayley's "Essay on Painting", published in 1781) in which he "had occasion in speaking of Copley to introduce the name of yr noble Father" (the poem refers to John Singleton Copley's painting of the Death of Chatham). Hayley invites Pitt to visit his house in Eartham, hopes he can congratulate him and "express my honest sentiments to you on this event without incurring the mortifying suspicion of Flattery from which tho I own it is a poetical vice I pique myself on being excepted. Hayley/XI/109 1 accession number Hayley/XI/109 110005472 priref 110005472 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005472 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005472 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1781 1781 Oct 7 on letter, 1781 established by context/content 1781-10-07 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 1 letter Hayley/XI/109 object OBJECT