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Letter from William Hayley, Felpham, to William Wilberforce, 1808 May 23 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
103326
Accession number
MA 23281
Creator
Hayley, William, 1745-1820.
Display Date
Felpham, England, 1808 May 23.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25.4 x 20.0 cm
Notes
From Hayley. "Life of Romney", v. 1.
John Johnson, clergyman, poet, editor and cousin of William Cowper, married Maria Dorothea Livius in 1808.
Summary
Describing a visit by "our good Johnny & his lovely Bride" and commenting on their happiness and prospects; saying "I am confident you will rejoice in being told that the young Bride of our friend appears to me exactly such a sweet tempered harmonious & angelic Fair one as we may suppose our good angel Cowper to have selected for the purpose of rewarding upon Earth all the meritorious Tenderness that He experienced in his deplorable dejection from favorite Kinsman...I am persuaded the spirit of our dear Cowper rejoices in this fortunate marriage & might rejoice yet more perhaps if we could contrive to make Johnny a Prebend of Norwich, the summit of his very temperate ecclesiastical ambition...If my dear Sir the kind [illegible] of Johnny should ever enable you to make a new Prebend of Norwich I am persuaded you would feel great delight in promoting our interesting divine so truly worthy of such promotion;" saying that his letter to Steele concerning an orphan seems not have reached Steele and adding that a neighbor just gave him a copy of Clarkson's History of the Abolition and saying "I have only advanced to the end of a Chapter in which He speaks of you - yet his Book has pleased me so much that on my pillow last night the enclosed Rhymes occurred to me - will you have the kindness either to direct them to the Historian or to throw them into the Fire according to their deserts."