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Upon this principle I have delayed writing to you till I could say I had fixed on a northern bathing place, & after much enquiry & much irresolution I have just made \\choice\/ of Parkgate, a retired scene near Chester. Mrs. Twigge was there the first summer I came into Derbyshire, & from her description, it appears the least exceptionable of any I have heard of, tho it is only an arm of the sea instead of the main body of Ocean which I most delight in - but the journey is shorter, & Newcastle is in the road to it.\" \nShe writes that she will visit her friends the Hattrells and Josiah Wedgewood and his daughter at Etruria  on the way there, and ~Mrs Gladwin on the way home, and continues \"With seabathing & a change of scene I hope to recover health & spirits to  feel more comfort myself & to administer more to my friends than I am capable of doing at present - but as I have already said I detest unavailing lamentation \u2013\nThis is therefore the last letter in which I intend speaking to you of myself. In future I will tell you what I am  reading, & what I have seen, if I have seen any thing, but I feel to have lived during the last three years the life of Mother Goose\u2019s sleeping beauty & to have dozed away all my senses - but I hope to rise from the sea, tho not Venus like Mrs. Keate  yet a newborn Minerva\u2026\"\nShe then points out that when she wrote of her \"22 years of domestic vexation\" she \"had not \u2026 an idea of your taking the whole upon yourself\", and writes \"Till I recollected that memory is not required from a Poet I felt surprized at your having forgot what I suffered from my Father\u2019s resignation of the Deanery to the death of my Mother, I might say of my Sister, when time & accident began to reconcile me to the loss of my earliest connections\". She writes that she would be ungrateful not to acknowledge \"more years of kindness & polite attentions than I could now suppose so lively a character as yours capable of paying to any woman, & however fallen & mortifying I may feel my present fortunes, I have never regretted the time I devoted to you, since I owe to it powers of enjoyment without which riches could afford me little gratification.\" Eliza points out that she owes him her ability to play the piano \u2013\u00a0which, when they first married, she would have given up \"but for your prohibition\".\nShe continues \"you see therefore that I am disposed to end our late hostile correspondence by rendering you ample justice\", before writing that she will no longer speak to him on \"money matters\". She concludes, however, by exhorting him to \"make such mention of Tom in your Will as may secure hime from any perplexity after your death. I wish you thoroughly to reflect that your Spirit when Living cannot bend the Laws as it has done a few individuals (who are dependent upon you) to your purpose \u2013 as Madame Lambert observes few are Friends to the dead & you may think me severe but I am confident when he has lost your support Tom will never experience the friendship from your Friends which would have been shewn him had he a stronger claim to the name of Hayley.\""}]},"identifier":[{"accession_number":"Hayley\/XXI\/64","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"Hayley\/XXI\/64"},{"priref":"110005695","type":"priref","value":"110005695"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005695","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/110005695"}],"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":"1792-07-05"}],"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"}}