1592997951000 1570721507000 Standard Record object-110005716 1747159750363 1570722198000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110005716 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005716 a189a9b8-a0c7-35b6-b6c4-c2f106373ce0 4 person reference agent-198502 adlib-agent-198502 b67bd5fa-4f2a-302b-afaa-81f4c4f45ec8 Hayley, Eliza person reference agent-156789 adlib-agent-156789 9db12765-8d11-3bc3-a6d8-c7bfdb2ea39d Cowper, William person reference agent-200402 adlib-agent-200402 964a21bf-60dd-3234-b402-db4fbc80b0aa Unwin, Mrs Mary person reference agent-200405 adlib-agent-200405 7812cd93-55d9-38c8-9729-3f12c2ef90c8 Thurlow, Edward, 1st Baron person reference agent-60281 adlib-agent-60281 eb950ea2-c7cf-31ca-86c5-6e18f0e39f92 Hayley, Thomas Alphonso content description 1 sheet folded Hayley writes "You desire to be informed concerning the real situation of my most dear Brother of Parnassus the engaging Cowper – I cannot imagine from what circumstance you supposed him a divine – His Profession was the Law & He was a Fellow Student & intimate associate at the Temple with our late Chancellor (whose obsolete Friendship for Him I have (between ourselves) laboured hard to revive with beneficial effects but I fear not with the success I had for some time reason to hope)". He relates the story of how Cowper came to be living with Mary Unwin, and how "over his marvellous & variable Health --- for eight years of calamitous depression she watched Him every night lest He should End his own Life in those terrific Moments of despair that continually overwhelmed Him --- She has in Truth acted the Part of a guardian Angel preserved his existence his Faculties & thus raised Him to what He now is & what He can never cease to be in one sense the delight & admiration of the World ----His Spirits however are very tender & often verge towards Melancholy & his dread of not restoring her Health oppresses Him at times beyond Expression but I trust that Heaven will enable me to prepare his Heart & Mind by degrees for the severe Loss which it must in all probability be his Lot to sustain". Hayley/XXI/22 1 accession number Hayley/XXI/22 110005716 priref 110005716 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005716 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110005716 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1792 1792 1792-12-02 reference agent-198487 adlib-agent-198487 4dbae6db-a725-3bfd-b34e-5d215b1a85e6 Hayley, William 1 letter Hayley/XXI/22 object OBJECT