1592997948000 1561044349000 Standard Record object-110005634 1747159852084 1681744319000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005634 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005634 2e72662c-8f8a-3ab5-9907-ea6818a657ad 5 person reference agent-192551 adlib-agent-192551 b494e74a-20ec-3ce9-be5f-3267eaba4253 Seward, Anna person reference agent-199451 adlib-agent-199451 ae66ab49-74f2-3693-8091-5f1c0a587dae Bayly, Dr person reference agent-198517 adlib-agent-198517 49d88f57-deba-30b2-88e3-5d8e0845362f Guy, William person reference agent-116992 adlib-agent-116992 ef3205d8-6794-3a6e-aae6-922ee555a7fb Romney, George person reference agent-199119 adlib-agent-199119 3d4df547-559e-3359-994a-6d1dcbabb0ca Sargent, John person reference agent-199452 adlib-agent-199452 6c8c2701-3e1e-3ae9-9e25-7794738ed640 Newton, William (poet) person reference agent-198991 adlib-agent-198991 6704da4c-9ab6-3716-8ebd-8a5d62c1c5ab Saville, John person reference agent-60281 adlib-agent-60281 eb950ea2-c7cf-31ca-86c5-6e18f0e39f92 Hayley, Thomas Alphonso content description Hayley writes of how, on medical advice, he has been bed-ridden for the previous five weeks. "... a Friend of ours (an amiable Surgeon of Chichester) ... came, & examining the Lameness, of which you have hear me Complain, & which I have erroneously slighted as a flying Rheumatism, or some latent malady beyond the reach of art He addressed me with the following serious advice.-- 'My dear Sir, if you do not instantly take to your Bed for a Month or six Weeks, your Life must be very soon in the most imminent danger.- I am confident that yr disorder, instead of being rheumatic, is some accidental Injury sustained in the Gland of the Hip-joint - yr neglect of it, & continuing to walk in Pain has produced great local Inflammation - the welling of the Gland has altered the position of the Bone, & occasioned this rapid shortening of the Leg - if you continue to walk in yr present State, this evil must increase; Suppuration will come on in the joint, & no power can save you.'" Hayley relates how, at the end of his time in his "very commodious little Tent-Bed in my new Library ... surrounded by the demi Gods of Parnassus", he could no longer walk unaided, but was "a crutch-supported Cripple". He continues: "When I took to my Bed, I felt equally willing to live or die, as the Great Giver of Life & Death might determine --- the latter appeared to me probable from a case that I had seen in this village very similar to my own - But lest the Fates should be very expeditious with me, I resolved to anticipate them in finishing a ludicrous Composition, which I had begun many months ago". Hayley is referring to "A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids: by a Friend to the Sisterhood" (see https://archive.org/details/aphilosophicalh01haylgoog/page/n8). Hayley concludes with praise for Seward's "delightful performances -- yr Verses to the new poetical wonder of the Peak, & yr account of this genuine Poet of Nature are both enchanting -- yr poetical Picture of the Peak is equal to the grandest Landscape that I ever saw of Salvator -- Sargent & I read yr Verses together with infinite delight -- We admired also the production of yr Friend, [William Newton] contrasting his propitious Lot with the cruel Destiny of Chatterton". Hayley/XII/44 1 accession number Hayley/XII/44 110005634 priref 110005634 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005634 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005634 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1785 1785 1785-04-24 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 1 sheet, folded. William Hayley to Anna Seward: letter object OBJECT