1592997951000 1570718667000 Standard Record object-110005713 1747159752349 1570719929000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005713 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005713 b9c7e0e5-d773-3abd-b69b-366694a4e3e1 4 person reference agent-198502 adlib-agent-198502 b67bd5fa-4f2a-302b-afaa-81f4c4f45ec8 Hayley, Eliza person reference agent-200380 adlib-agent-200380 8d0e38a1-620d-3e55-8265-0d5251cec860 Madan, Bishop Spencer person reference agent-156789 adlib-agent-156789 9db12765-8d11-3bc3-a6d8-c7bfdb2ea39d Cowper, William person reference agent-200385 adlib-agent-200385 f0109555-0b2d-3558-97df-b338068253bf Sockett, Thomas person reference agent-60281 adlib-agent-60281 eb950ea2-c7cf-31ca-86c5-6e18f0e39f92 Hayley, Thomas Alphonso person reference agent-200383 adlib-agent-200383 1b2930be-64d2-3551-b267-ade414d8d58e Bateman, Mr I content description 1 sheet folded Hayley writes: "You are fortunate I think in having made an early Retreat from Park Gate as We have such continual deluges of Rain I am glad you met with so pleasing a visiter [sic] at Litchfield as the polite Bishop you mention – it pleases me to find He expressed Himself in so flattering a Manner on the inestimable Friendship I have formed with his engaging Relation the dear Bard of Weston – the marvellous incidents of whose Life must have interested you extremely if his Cousin related them (as I doubt not but He did) with Intelligence & Sensibility –" He continues: "You were surprized at my Expression of the two Boys – I thought I had long ago related to you the Manner in which I was induced to bring home from the Village where Cowper lives an interesting Lad who like myself had been afflicted with great illness in his Childhood" and explains that he met Thomas Sockett when he borrowed Sockett's mother's "electrical apparatus" to treat Mary Unwin after her stroke. The boys, "are very good Friends, & contribute I trust to Each others Improvement --- Tom the Elder [Sockett] is I think with some singularities a very good Lad – He is an Oddity in his Person & manners & puts me a little in Mind of our little Friend Flaxman – If He makes as valuable a Man I shall have great reason to be proud of my young charge – His age is between 14 & 15 but as He has something between deformity & dwarfishness in his Person He is not so much taller than Tom the little [Hayley] as you might expect". He concludes by relating that Tom Hayley is "highly flattered by yr kind attention to his Portrait" [that of Tom as Puck by George Romney], and adds a postscript in response to Eliza's letter of 14/10/1792 [Hayley/XXI/70]: "yr account of the Derby writer of anonymous Letters has excited my Curiosity -- I think from yr brief account of them the poor Man must be crazy --- This is the most charitable Construction we can put on a superlative Malevolence". Hayley/XXI/19 1 accession number Hayley/XXI/19 110005713 priref 110005713 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005713 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005713 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1792 1792 1792-10-21 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 1 letter Hayley/XXI/19 object OBJECT