1592997946000 1551354754000 Standard Record object-110005488 1747159852104 1681740448000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005488 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005488 a720519a-d637-3cf8-be42-20c8dabaf483 5 person reference agent-192551 adlib-agent-192551 b494e74a-20ec-3ce9-be5f-3267eaba4253 Seward, Anna person reference agent-198931 adlib-agent-198931 9209f873-07a2-36f9-bac6-2ce1c67907c5 Miller, Lady Anna person reference agent-192537 adlib-agent-192537 d5687729-51f9-3b8b-a80c-fcaefd5b4dfe Darwin, Erasmus 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 content description Hayley writes praising Seward's productivity, and thanks her for "your affectionate sollicitude to assist me". She has sent him details of an eye treatment which she has used. He responds that "I dare not apply the plaister which you so warmly recommend to my unfortunate Eyes - our cases, my dear Physician, are very different". He proceeds to describe how his "present complaint is chiefly owing to my having too rashly ventured on many remedies..." and explains that if he stays "perfectly quiet I have neither pain nor appearance of disorder ... but the slightest Cold, & sometimes a single Hour passed in writing or reading, & sometimes even intense thinking alone will produce considerable Inflammation". He next thanks Seward for sending a transcription of an extract from Erasmus Darwin's poem "The Botanic Garden". He writes that he longs "for the publication of the Whole, [the poem was published in two parts] it will appear most happily at present as a pleasing supplement & as a worthy rival to Mason's elegant English Garden". However, he expresses (in prose and verse) envy of Drarwin's visits from/proximity to Seward. Hayley next discusses Seaward's "Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller" (see Hayley XII/1 and 2), recommending that she tempers some of her more hyperbolic lines as they "may expose you to much raillery". He suggests a few edits, before concluding with some news: Romney has left Eartham, and has asked Hayley "to make a thousand apologies" to Seward for the "Failings" of a portrait (identified by Alex Kidson as a 6" by 5" watercolour in the Courtauld Institute: see pp. 299 & 846 of "George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings") that he has painted of Hayley for Seward (which awaits "a Frame & glass from London"). He writes that he is returning "Mr Pratts penitential Letter [see see Hayley XII/1 and 2], & I doubt not but you have been gracious enough to sign his Pardon" and concludes with an "Impromptu for yr Impromptu": 12 lines of verse praising Seward's ability to write comic as well as elegiac verse. Hayley/XII/4 1 accession number Hayley/XII/4 110005488 priref 110005488 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005488 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005488 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1781 1781 1781-09-23 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 2 sheets, folded. William Hayley to Anna Seward: letter object OBJECT