1592997951000 1570629656000 Standard Record object-110005706 1753207444821 1656343008000 1753207432602 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005706 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005706 912b649c-e3e5-3a44-8960-9e81a0a9704b 5 person reference agent-198502 adlib-agent-198502 b67bd5fa-4f2a-302b-afaa-81f4c4f45ec8 Hayley, Eliza person reference agent-143579 adlib-agent-143579 c32405af-1ece-35c0-b858-f9afd196ebc6 Wedgwood, Josiah person reference agent-147545 adlib-agent-147545 5e6f0704-813a-3b1d-999f-9cc06c46c2c8 Wright, Joseph (Wright of Derby) person reference agent-60281 adlib-agent-60281 eb950ea2-c7cf-31ca-86c5-6e18f0e39f92 Hayley, Thomas Alphonso person reference agent-192537 adlib-agent-192537 d5687729-51f9-3b8b-a80c-fcaefd5b4dfe Darwin, Erasmus person reference agent-156789 adlib-agent-156789 9db12765-8d11-3bc3-a6d8-c7bfdb2ea39d Cowper, William content description 1 sheet folded Hayley replies to Eliza's letter of 07/07/1792 (Hayley/XXI/64) congratulating her "most heartily on yr having settled yr route to the sea in a manner that will I trust afford you satsifaction & amusement in no trifling degree...". He continues, saying that he envies her opportunity to see Etruria (Josiah Wedgwood's house) and "you will see I believe our Friend Wrights [sic] picture of Penelope at Etruria which is I think for sentiment & expression the happiest production of his pencil". He next asks after Wright, whom he fears to be "like myself too much of an Invalide [sic] to be comfortably & successfully busy on works that require much mental Exertion". He responds to Eliza's recommendation re making provision in his will for his natural son Tom: "Many Thanks for what you so kindly & sensibly suggest in regard to the little scholar whose future destiny I wish to be as free from Thorns as the chances of human life will allow. I will do what I can to shield Him from mortification & I trust his own good understanding & active Spirit will lead him to make a Figure in that beneficent profession where an accomplished mind & a tender Heart may find I think the noblest Field for Exertion & one of the best roads I know to satisfactory Emolumnet & to real Honour". (At this point, when Tom was 11, Hayley hoped he would train as a physician). Hayley next writes that Darwin's poem "The Botanic Garden" will afford Eliza "great please - it is assuredly an admirable poem & its Beauties are so varied that I think the most fastidious of Readers must in the course of it find something to his Taste". He concludes by revealing that his "late visit" that he had promised to tell Eliza about was to William Cowper, "But I will give you a more diffuse History of the the various delights it afforded me in my next -- at present an oppressive headach [sic] renders me peculiarly unfit for scribbling..." Hayley/XXI/12 1 accession number Hayley/XXI/12 110005706 priref 110005706 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005706 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005706 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1792 1792 1792-07-15 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 1 letter William Hayley to Eliza Hayley: letter object OBJECT