1592997946000 1555601348000 Standard Record object-110005511 1747159851999 1681742455000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005511 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005511 90377114-7cc4-3837-95f2-2e6ce7430fec 5 person reference agent-192551 adlib-agent-192551 b494e74a-20ec-3ce9-be5f-3267eaba4253 Seward, Anna person reference agent-116992 adlib-agent-116992 ef3205d8-6794-3a6e-aae6-922ee555a7fb Romney, George person reference agent-198502 adlib-agent-198502 b67bd5fa-4f2a-302b-afaa-81f4c4f45ec8 Hayley, Eliza person reference agent-198683 adlib-agent-198683 7e8947bd-8aa7-3fbc-8d50-d176e429f260 Long, William FRS, FSA person reference agent-199104 adlib-agent-199104 f51109c2-99a2-365f-8b1d-e9d302037daa Knowles, Mary person reference agent-198972 adlib-agent-198972 920da6ce-e8e0-3b0e-94df-aef3bd9411e9 Seward, Thomas person reference agent-198991 adlib-agent-198991 6704da4c-9ab6-3716-8ebd-8a5d62c1c5ab Saville, John person reference agent-199109 adlib-agent-199109 128e09a5-2b62-31a3-a80b-a84a732d1101 Ball, Margaret person reference agent-199110 adlib-agent-199110 5e02116a-341f-3bbc-b956-3fef718d5556 Siddons, Sarah content description Hayley writes from George Romney's house in Cavendish Square, where he is staying. He writes that Seward's letter to Romney (referred to here as "Tiziano" [Titian]) arrived yesterday when he and Long were with Romney. 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..." He 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]. Hayley 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. He 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..." Hayley/XII/26 1 accession number Hayley/XII/26 110005511 priref 110005511 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005511 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005511 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1783 1783 1783-01-10 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 1 sheet, folded. William Hayley to Anna Seward: Letter object OBJECT