1592997946000 1550750984000 Standard Record object-110005479 1747159852111 1681740118000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005479 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005479 f41a0eed-d215-3920-84a1-4ef0bd68f791 5 person reference agent-192551 adlib-agent-192551 b494e74a-20ec-3ce9-be5f-3267eaba4253 Seward, Anna person reference agent-116992 adlib-agent-116992 ef3205d8-6794-3a6e-aae6-922ee555a7fb Romney, George person reference agent-198930 adlib-agent-198930 1fea5e78-0434-323a-beda-72986aed6c73 Pratt, Samuel Jackson person reference agent-198931 adlib-agent-198931 9209f873-07a2-36f9-bac6-2ce1c67907c5 Miller, Lady Anna content description Hayley writes to Anna Seward with a critique of a draft of her "Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller" (see http://spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?textsid=34994), suggesting edits and adding " Courage, ma chere Soeur! you will convince the World, that an amiable Woman may be as happily immortalizes as the most gallant of Heroes, & surely to give new Graces & diffuse new pleasures round the circle of polisghed society is an Enterprise as worthy of poetical applause, as the bestowing new Birds & animals on an Island of Savages, which you have described in so engaging a manner - I am very anxious that yr present Elegiac Poem should have the magnitude & all the merit of its two predecessors." Seward had published her "Elegy on Captain Cooke" in 1780 and "Monody on Major Andre" earlier in 1781. Hayley then writes that he would like to see the three poems collected "into an elegant elegiac Volume embellished by the pencil of my Friend Romney from whom I will procure you a Frontispiece...". He concludes with a few sentences consoling Seward "under the mortification you so feelingly describe & in which I may most truely be said to sympathise with you, for perhaps I am exactly in the same predicament - the author of Sympathy [Samuel Jackson Pratt] may possibly have printed a letter, [see Hayley/XI/2)] which He very artfully obtained from me, as He has done yours." He counsels her to forgive Pratt, as "I apprehend that poverty tempted him to make that unjustifiable use of yr letters, & to Poverty much may be forgiven ... & learn to look on a newspaper with the eyes of your favourtie Serena [the heroine of Hayley's "The Triumphs of Temper"] -- aftera ll, the Generosity of yr praise must do you Honour in the Estimation of every feeling Heart". Hayley/XII/1 1 accession number Hayley/XII/1 110005479 priref 110005479 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005479 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005479 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1781 1781 1781-08-10 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 1 sheet, folded. William Hayley to Anna Seward: letter object OBJECT