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HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)
Autograph letter signed to Rear Admiral [Sir Thomas] Graves, Elephant, 21 April 1801, one page, 4to, laid on to mount (some discolouration from tape repairs to verso of folds), framed and glazed.
Subscription to a book, and a 'very violent Cold': Nelson sends a book for subscription, noting with touching delicacy, 'will you forgive me when I say that it is not necessary that you should (not having been so much in fortune's Way) subscribe so much as either Sir Hyde, myself or what Dickson will do, what Domet has done is handsome and enough', adding his hopes for Graves's recovery from a 'very violent Cold'. At the battle of Copenhagen, it was Graves who, gamely following Nelson's lead in ignoring Sir Hyde Parker's potentially disastrous signal to disengage, neatly obeyed correct form by repeating it, whilst hoisting it 'in such a position that it was invisible to most of the squadron, [and] keeping Nelson's signal for "close action" at the masthead' (DNB).
Autograph letter signed to Rear Admiral [Sir Thomas] Graves, Elephant, 21 April 1801, one page, 4to, laid on to mount (some discolouration from tape repairs to verso of folds), framed and glazed.
Subscription to a book, and a 'very violent Cold': Nelson sends a book for subscription, noting with touching delicacy, 'will you forgive me when I say that it is not necessary that you should (not having been so much in fortune's Way) subscribe so much as either Sir Hyde, myself or what Dickson will do, what Domet has done is handsome and enough', adding his hopes for Graves's recovery from a 'very violent Cold'. At the battle of Copenhagen, it was Graves who, gamely following Nelson's lead in ignoring Sir Hyde Parker's potentially disastrous signal to disengage, neatly obeyed correct form by repeating it, whilst hoisting it 'in such a position that it was invisible to most of the squadron, [and] keeping Nelson's signal for "close action" at the masthead' (DNB).
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