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Both have asked Hayley to thank Seward \" in the warmest Terms for many marks of yr kind Remembrance in the shape of Hare, Venison &c -- As to myself I have to thank you for diverse intellectual dainties, which I ought indeed to have acknowledged much sooner, but I have been much harrassed by my eager desire to finish my literary Business...\"\n\nHe says that he hopes to visit \"our Friend the Fair Quaker\" [Mary Knowles], but hasn't yet had the opportunity. He has come to London with out Eliza, who is visiting her mother in Chichester, and \"desires to be kindly remembered to you & Giovanni\" [John Saville].\n\nHayley writes that \"I hear nothing in this busy scene but universal Complaints on the scarcity of Money -- & particularly among the Booksellers\" and explains that he has left his bookseller\/publisher Dodsley: \"our parting was by no means like that of two quarrelling Lovers vehement & passionate but perfectly cold & civil we shall never shake Hands again like Horace & Lydia --- He does not even know the name or nature of my present intended Publication -- which I wish to send forth in a month or two\". Hayley is here referring to his \"Plays of Three Acts: Written for a Private Theatre\", which was not published until 1784 due to ongoing negotiations with Dodsley over copyrights to Hayley's backlisted works.\n\nHe continues \" But I must haste to bid you Farewell -- my Eyes have suffered by gazing on the irresistible Mrs Siddons in Jane Shore -- she deserves all that has been said, & all that has been done for Her ---\", and signs off with \"the dear Painter salutes you with all good wishes so does Longinus. remember me kindly to yr Father & Giovanni...\""}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Hayley\/XII\/26","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Hayley\/XII\/26"},{"priref":"110005511","type":"priref","value":"110005511"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005511","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005511"}],"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":1783,"latest":1783,"value":"1783-01-10"}],"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"}}