1592997951000 1570717646000 Standard Record object-110005712 1747159752441 1570718603000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005712 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005712 1868e8d9-e6ef-356e-9188-d07990d17f93 4 person reference agent-198502 adlib-agent-198502 b67bd5fa-4f2a-302b-afaa-81f4c4f45ec8 Hayley, Eliza person reference agent-192551 adlib-agent-192551 b494e74a-20ec-3ce9-be5f-3267eaba4253 Seward, Anna person reference agent-198991 adlib-agent-198991 6704da4c-9ab6-3716-8ebd-8a5d62c1c5ab Saville, John person reference agent-156789 adlib-agent-156789 9db12765-8d11-3bc3-a6d8-c7bfdb2ea39d Cowper, William person reference agent-60281 adlib-agent-60281 eb950ea2-c7cf-31ca-86c5-6e18f0e39f92 Hayley, Thomas Alphonso content description 1 sheet folded Eliza has written [see Hayley/XXI/69] saying she hasn't received his last letter, but, knowing his "punctuality", she is "assured" of him "having written it". "You do me justice indeed," Hayley writes, "in believing that I had not failed to write on my usual day – it is singular enough that the Letter which has not reached you contained my free sentiments on French affairs in reply to what you said on that Subject – yet I can hardly believe a private Letter passing in England could be opened & stopt from such a Circumstance --- my Sentiments however I am not anxious to conceal So far from it that had I stronger Health I should probably have put them into the best array I could for the sake of presenting them to the public". He says Eliza was "perfectly right to decamp from the Sea Side in the abominably wet Weather that has been universal this Autumn & which told my Guests between jest & Earnest I concluded Providence sent expressly to drive the arrogant Invaders out of France --- I rejoice that you have had the gratification of passing some agreeable days with the enchanting Muse of Litchfield [Anna Seward]after the heavy parties of a public place". He explains that he has been a "shabby correspondent" and failed to respond to a letter from Seward telling him how John Saville had benefitted from sea bathing, and says he would have replied before now "had not the two great Poets Cowper & Milton engrossed my attention – one as my Guest & the other as the Object of the little & interrupted Study that an Invalid can pursue at this idle time of the Year", and concludes with the information that Tom has had a cold, from which he has now recovered, and "He plunged into a cool Sea with me this Morning". Hayley/XXI/18 1 accession number Hayley/XXI/18 110005712 priref 110005712 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005712 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005712 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1792 1792 1792-10-07 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 1 letter Hayley/XXI/18 object OBJECT