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He follows this with three four-line stanzas (rhymed abab) in praise of the dandelion, and a few lines \"paying due respect to yr Fathers new Periwig\".\n\nHe continues \"We return home on Saturday next & I do not think of moving again from that favourite Retirement for many many months.\n\nHow much we were all pleased with Giovanni [John Saville] I leave you to guess - He will have told you long before this letter kisses yr Hand many particulars relating to Eliza Longinus [William Long] Romney & yr poetical Brother -- He will have told you that I wish you to write a new epic Elegy - & on what Subject -\". He explains that he \"dreamt of such a composition as we had been wishing you to execute & if you will be a good Sister & take up yr poetical Pen I will endeavour to recollect all I can of my dream in which I had a clear Idea of the whole design for such a Poem which affected me so much in vision that I awoke in a Flood of Tears. I tried in the subsequent morning to recllect some of these sleeping Verses but I could only recover two of them which I transcribe for you as a Curiosity tho I have not Time to tell you the manner in which they were introduced -\".\n\nHayley includes two lines of verse, then writes \"I ought to tremble at sending you the Productions of my Sleep when you criticize so forcibly the waking ode of Mason [Mason's \"Ode to the honourable William Pitt\" - see https:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/e\/ecco\/004807614.0001.000] --- yr remark on the Fountain & Flame is perfectly just -- in some points you are misled by a blotted copy I apprehend for venal in printed as it should be in my copy vernal -...\nsaucy as you are you have certainly improved his first stanza -\""}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Hayley\/XII\/17","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Hayley\/XII\/17"},{"priref":"110005502","type":"priref","value":"110005502"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005502","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005502"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"lifecycle":{"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":1782,"latest":1782,"value":"1782-06-11"}],"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-198487","uid":"adlib-agent-198487","uuid":"4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6"},"summary_title":"Hayley, William"}]}]},"measurements":{"dimensions":[{"value":"1 sheet, folded."}]},"summary_title":"William Hayley to Anna Seward: letter","title":[{"value":"William Hayley to Anna Seward: letter"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}