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Your Ballad is completely beautiful ... [and] we were highly entertained by yr critical Experiments on Addison...\" and continues \"I shall proceed ... to upbraid you for yr Injustice.---Yawn over Addison! & prefer a certain Poet of yr acqaintance to Pope & Dryden!--- but I will not say a syllable more on the Subject, ofor, if these things are so, I am convinced that yr Taste is irretrievably corrupted ----\" [Seward has also sent conert bills for Eliza].\n\nHayley continues: \"Let me now reply to yr last Letter! I am delighted with yr advances towards publication.--- Do not lament the impossibility you find of introducing such an Epistle as I suggested from Emma ... it is, I believe, advisable for most Authors ... to deviate very little from their own Original Plan.\" He expects Louisa to be published long before his next work [Plays for a Private Theatre]: \"Longinuss Canvass & Election have so much interfered with literary Objects, that I know not how far the Press has proceeded with the latter part of my Work.--- my two last months have been wasted in a most irksome pecuniary Contest with the Wretch of whose iniquity you have formerly heard some Account .--- the Will, which He contrived to model as much as possible to his own advantage, appears in some points invalid. This Circumstance has given rise to an infinite chain og perplexed & teizing Businss. But I flatter myself, we have already snatched from this ecclesiastical Harpy some portion of his Prey, & perhaps we shall soon settle all these intricate affairs in such a Manner, as to defeat, not indeed the Whole, but about the half of his Vilainy.---\""}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Hayley\/XII\/41","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Hayley\/XII\/41"},{"priref":"110005527","type":"priref","value":"110005527"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005527","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005527"}],"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":1784,"latest":1784,"value":"1784-01-25"}],"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"}}