{"admin":{"added":1592997951000,"created":1569845040000,"flag":"Standard Record","id":"object-110005693","indexed":1747159884788,"modified":1705310243000,"processed":1747159409017,"source":"adlib","stream":"fitz-online","uid":"adlib-object-110005693","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005693","uuid":"ed918fbe-5d8b-3f3f-8710-a4f305868d5a","version":5},"agents":[{"@link":{"relation":"person","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-198487","uid":"adlib-agent-198487","uuid":"4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6"},"summary_title":"Hayley, William"},{"@link":{"relation":"person","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-199141","uid":"adlib-agent-199141","uuid":"631877ff-f845-3783-ab40-ba82430f83c8"},"summary_title":"Beridge, Maria (later Mrs Twigge)"},{"@link":{"relation":"person","type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-60281","uid":"adlib-agent-60281","uuid":"eb950ea2-c7cf-31ca-86c5-6e18f0e39f92"},"summary_title":"Hayley, Thomas Alphonso"}],"content":{"description":[{"type":"content description","value":"1 sheet folded\nEliza writes: \"I went  to Bowbridge the day after I received your last letter when as I had flattered myself the country air & the society of my kind Friends were of some service to my health & spirits, but on my return to Derby on Monday se\u2019ennight I had again sleepless nights, & my nerves have been so severely agitated that I have felt unequal to every exertion.\" She explains that she has delayed writing to Hayley because she was waiting to talk to Mrs Twigge about bathing places in the north of England, and continues: \"I cannot sufficiently divest myself of an inclination to indulge your wishes, (however unreasonable they may appear to me) without a consideration for which my conscience as well as my counsellors might give me a dispensation: but after speaking to Mrs. Twigge upon the subject, I find it impossible for me to entertain an idea of bathing upon the northern coast. I must travel an hundred & twenty miles a cross country road which would put me to a heavy expence, & when I arrived there as Mrs. Twigge says I should find the society inaccessible to a stranger.\u2026 Upon mature deliberation therefore I determine on Hastings\".\nEliza points out that had she not told him of \"my wish to enjoy a few conversations, for a few hours at a time with you\", Hayley would never have known that she was in Sussex.\nShe writes that although, for the last 22 years she has \"been harassed by a series of domestic vexation & perplexity which I conceive would have worn the patience of a greater stoic than I profess to be, yet I cannot believe that even in the most trying moments, I could ever have been so far transported by passion as to wish to renounce a country, altogether the most beautiful, the most healthy, & the most desirable to reside in that I have yet seen.\" She has however, \"long ceased to wish to spend more than a day\" with Hayley, and his \"two last letters have entirely cured me of the wish of conversing with you in any other manner than by letter\", and continues: \"You may therefore depend upon my never surprising or distressing you by a visit in sickness or in health without your invitation \u2026\"\nShe concludes by remarking that \u2013\u00a0even though she knows he will have left town by then \u2013\u00a0she is addressing this letter to him at William Long's in London \"as you desire\"."}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Hayley\/XXI\/62","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Hayley\/XXI\/62"},{"priref":"110005693","type":"priref","value":"110005693"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005693","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005693"}],"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":1792,"latest":1792,"value":"1792-06-09"}],"maker":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-198502","uid":"adlib-agent-198502","uuid":"b67bd5fa-4f2a-302b-afaa-81f4c4f45ec8"},"summary_title":"Hayley, Eliza"}]}]},"measurements":{"dimensions":[{"value":"1 letter"}]},"owners":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"summary_title":"Eliza Hayley to William Hayley: letter","title":[{"value":"Eliza Hayley to William Hayley: letter"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}