1592997946000 1552900709000 Standard Record object-110005499 1747159852111 1681741770000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005499 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005499 bd4221ae-5c50-3744-b571-4b6b8e02c300 5 person reference agent-192551 adlib-agent-192551 b494e74a-20ec-3ce9-be5f-3267eaba4253 Seward, Anna person reference agent-198984 adlib-agent-198984 cb3a481d-cb4f-3678-929e-6866c75ec62b Boothby, Sir Brooke person reference agent-198502 adlib-agent-198502 b67bd5fa-4f2a-302b-afaa-81f4c4f45ec8 Hayley, Eliza person reference agent-198989 adlib-agent-198989 a5cf1c42-9dac-3e1f-bbc7-dabaec9c4e55 Miller, Sir John person reference agent-198990 adlib-agent-198990 e43a994a-ae1e-3cdc-8405-f72838d0eae9 Whalley, Thomas Sedgwick person reference agent-198991 adlib-agent-198991 6704da4c-9ab6-3716-8ebd-8a5d62c1c5ab Saville, John content description Hayley writes in "extreme Haste" thanking Seward for her packet, showing that "you have written some fine things of Me to your Friend Mr Whalley". He continues "but you have slandered me most horribly in saying I have no feelings for your favourite Ossian" and asks if she would ask Brooke Boothby, who, he has heard "is in possession of a newly-translated & unprinted Fragment of your wonderful old Bard" to "indulge me with a sight of it in yr next Frank". [Ossian's poems were later agreed to have been written by his "translator", Scottish poet James Macpherson]. Seward has not yet heard from Sir John Miller (husband of Lady Anna Miller) concerning her "Poem to the Memory of Lady Miller". Hayley writes: "Your not hearing from Sir John must proceed from some foolish accident, like that, which lately agitated me, namely the wandering of one of Eliza's Letters to Chester by a mistake of the Post. He writes: "Poor Giovanni---I wish there was any magic in my Rhymes to drive away that dark Spirit, which renders Him so unjust to Himself". (Giovanni was Seward's companion John Saville), and he continues, "Tell Him Eliza has set her Heart on seeing Him here in the summer & so indeed have I." Hayley includes a postscript saying that "the monitory Squib [written re Seward's quarrel with Erasmus Darwin] I sent you in my last I mean you should keep entirely to yrself - pray do not give any copy of it" Hayley/XII/14 1 accession number Hayley/XII/14 110005499 priref 110005499 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005499 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005499 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1782 1782 1782-03-23 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 1 sheet, folded. William Hayley to Anna Seward: letter object OBJECT