1592997946000 1551956200000 Standard Record object-110005495 1747159851998 1681741222000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005495 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005495 3e0c55f8-f0ec-3743-9092-734df52ab24b 5 person reference agent-192551 adlib-agent-192551 b494e74a-20ec-3ce9-be5f-3267eaba4253 Seward, Anna person reference agent-198972 adlib-agent-198972 920da6ce-e8e0-3b0e-94df-aef3bd9411e9 Seward, Thomas person reference agent-198683 adlib-agent-198683 7e8947bd-8aa7-3fbc-8d50-d176e429f260 Long, William FRS, FSA content description Written from his friend William Long's house in Chancery Lane, London, while Hayley is en route from visiting Anna Seward in Lichfield to his home in Sussex, thanking Seward and her father for their hospitality. The journey back to London was "as good as a journey could be, that carried me away from Friends so dear to me", although "the rapidity of my motion ... has given me a painful Inflammation in one of my unfortunate Eyes, which must be my apology for this woeful Scrawl". Hayley writes that he is planning to send the letter, "by the Coach that sets out for Litchfield tonight" with a book he promised Seward, and "as the Episcopal Barrel of oysters is not, like the Widows cruise [sic - biblical reference: 2 Kings 4:1-7] inexhaustible, you will forgive my adding a little Fish to the Book..." He then explains that Long has dissuaded him from sending the package by coach, recommending, instead that book and oysters "follow by the safer conveyance of the tardy Waggon -- allow me however to introduce them to you by a few Post-Rhymes, which started up as I was whirled along my last Stage this morning". This is followed by 14 lines of rhyming couplets. Hayley then writes that Long is reading Seward's poem [presumably the MS of Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller] "with enthusiastic avidity -- He wll convey it to yr Bookseller today, & perhaps may be able to insert a few lines concerning the succes of his Commission in the Parcel with this Scrawl". Hayley/XII/10 1 accession number Hayley/XII/10 110005495 priref 110005495 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005495 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005495 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1782 1701 Written when Hayley stopped off in London en route from a visit to Seward in December 1781: vol1 p 252 of his Memoirs states that "he contrived to reach his favourite southern retirement [ie: home - Eartham House in Sussex] very early in January, 1782." 1782-01 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 1 sheet, folded. William Hayley to Anna Seward: letter object OBJECT