BIB_ID
104238
Accession number
MA 2983.1
Creator
Hayley, William, 1745-1820.
Display Date
Place not specified, 1784 September.
Credit line
Gift of Charles Ryskamp, 1972.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.6 x 18.2 cm
Notes
This letter is part of a small collection of ten autograph letters signed from William Hayley to various recipients on literary and personal matters (MA 2983.1-10).
It is not certain this manuscript is in Hayley's hand.
It is not certain this manuscript is in Hayley's hand.
Provenance
Gift of Charles Ryskamp, 1972.
Summary
Being a Sonnet titled "Sonnet / To Mr. John Flaxman Sculptor / with a little copy of Milton / Sept 1784" opening with "Flaxman! young artist of an ardent mind!" and with the last two lines "England, who glories in his Fame, in you / Shall boast a Phidias to her Homer true."
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