1592997946000 1552569926000 Standard Record object-110005498 1747159852046 1681741662000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005498 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005498 c8d05302-a630-3704-a137-975d5e9621e4 6 person reference agent-192551 adlib-agent-192551 b494e74a-20ec-3ce9-be5f-3267eaba4253 Seward, Anna person reference agent-192537 adlib-agent-192537 d5687729-51f9-3b8b-a80c-fcaefd5b4dfe Darwin, Erasmus person reference agent-198502 adlib-agent-198502 b67bd5fa-4f2a-302b-afaa-81f4c4f45ec8 Hayley, Eliza person reference agent-60281 adlib-agent-60281 eb950ea2-c7cf-31ca-86c5-6e18f0e39f92 Hayley, Thomas Alphonso person reference agent-198984 adlib-agent-198984 cb3a481d-cb4f-3678-929e-6866c75ec62b Boothby, Sir Brooke content description Hayley writes apologising for not having thanked Seward for a her "kind pacquet", which had included letters between Seward and Darwin in which they quarreled -- "I thought you both in the Wrong". He ascribes the delay to "a thousand perverse circumstances", amongst which were the need to have a poem transcribed: "on perusing the Correspondence between you & your Critical Physician, I ... immediately scribbled a pacific squib in the Hope of restoring Harmony between two children of Apollo, who ought to have a cordial Esteem for each other. I scribbled my Impromptu so hastily that I imagined you would not be able to read it". [transcript is not included with the letter This transcription took longer than expected, because the friend who offered to do the work was ill, and was unable to complete the task as soon as expected. Much of the remainder of the letter concerns the quarrel: Hayley recommends that Seward forgive Darwin: "Darwin is sarcastick, but He has been long your Friend, & has many Virtues with great poetical Talents; surely it is better to smile at the satirical Petulance of such a Character than to treat it with serious Anger ---". Hayley makes it clear that he feels Seward overreacted. "I think you perfectly right however in vindicating your Genius from the charge of shining with borrowed rays, & on this account I most earnestly recommend it to you never to let any associate whatever insert a Line in your Poetry -- remember your Friend Lady M. W. Montagues reply to Pope, when He proposed some corrections in her verses! No! Said she Pope: no touching! for then whatever is good for any thing will pass for yours and the rest for mine". Hayley discusses the other contents of Seward's pacquet, and writes that Eliza "is quite satisfied with the opinions she has heard pronounced by the fashionable Critics on your charming Elegy" [Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller]. He also mentions that his son (then not quite 18 months old) "by playing abroad in these villainous March Winds has got a cruel Inflammation in his Eyes which troubles me very much - yet He supports it marvellously well, & continues his little sports with undiminished vivacity" Hayley/XII/13 1 accession number Hayley/XII/13 110005498 priref 110005498 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005498 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005498 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1782 1782 1782-03-17 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