1592997946000 1551954741000 Standard Record object-110005494 1747159852103 1681742612000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005494 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005494 915e6b7d-ac3b-3851-8975-44947f9e0eaf 6 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-147545 adlib-agent-147545 5e6f0704-813a-3b1d-999f-9cc06c46c2c8 Wright, Joseph (Wright of Derby) person reference agent-164374 adlib-agent-164374 6dc6d8ee-f986-30b1-a547-036e43de6644 Gibbon, Edward person reference agent-198502 adlib-agent-198502 b67bd5fa-4f2a-302b-afaa-81f4c4f45ec8 Hayley, Eliza person reference agent-192537 adlib-agent-192537 d5687729-51f9-3b8b-a80c-fcaefd5b4dfe Darwin, Erasmus person reference agent-198972 adlib-agent-198972 920da6ce-e8e0-3b0e-94df-aef3bd9411e9 Seward, Thomas content description Hayley responds to Anna Seward's defence of four stanzas he recommended she cut from her "Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller". He mentions that Romney is staying with him in Eartham - which is the reason for the delay in his replying the Seward's last two letters. He writes "but If I have not conversed with you, believe me you have formed the most frequent subject of our conversation, & we have been employed in your service - Romney tho He has neither oil nor Canvass, has made a little coloured sketch for you of the Poet, to whom you are so partial." [now in the Courtauld Institute Gallery: see Kidson, 2015, p 846]. Hayley continues by praising an additional stanza that Seward has added to her poem, and recommends that Joseph Wright should paint Seward in the character of "Elegiac Muse" ... "the Figure should be sitting in Virgil's Tomb by Lamp light & it would be worthy of the subject & the Painter". Hayley asks Seward to thank her father for his letter and invitation, and thanks Seward for her "entertaining Epigrams (of which that on Cockle shells is my favourite)" and offers her "the copy of a few verses which I lately scribbled to Gibbon" (who "is soon expected here") in return. He writes that "no Language can exprss how deeply I feel indebted to you for the tender sollicitude you have shewn concerning my unfortunate Eyes", recommends that she "change the jewish Ephod in yr Elegy into the classic Costus" and says "I long to see that Poem of yours to dr D" [Darwin]. The seal (in two pieces) depicts a woman playing a lyre. Hayley/XII/3 1 accession number Hayley/XII/3 110005494 priref 110005494 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005494 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005494 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1781 1781 1781-09-11 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 2 sheets, 1 folded. William Hayley to Anna Seward: letter object OBJECT