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NELSON, Horatio, Lord, (1758-1805), British Admiral, victor at Trafalgar. Autograph letter signed ("Nelson & Bronte") to Admiral Skeffington Lutwidge (d.1814), on board H.M.S. Amazon, 11 October 1801. 2 pages, 4to. In very fine condition.
NELSON RAILS AGAINST "OUR MEAN, DIRTY DEGENERATE SCOUNDRELS...I BLUSH FOR MY COUNTRY...OH, DEGENERATE ENGLISH..."
Six months after the Battle of Copenhagen, Nelson pens a mercurial letter to the Admiral Lutwidge, expressing his disgust over a recent incident. In 1772, as a young man, Nelson had served as coxswain to Lutwidge on the HMS Carcass during the Phipps' Arctic Expedition. "My dear Admiral, If the morning has been very very fine I intended to have paid my respects to you, but as to dining I must beg your forgiveness. I'm dancing mad to think that our mean Dirty degenerate scoundrels[--]No I am wrong it proves they are so[--] to Drag a Damned Frenchman's Carriage, so the Miscreants would have dragged Buonaparte if our glorious Navy had permitted him to have got over, although he cannot tear our King from his Throne I hope never to be drawn by the wretches again, I blush for my Country. These Miscreants are call'd Englishmen[.] I am not well and the Adl. will not let me go on shore and this paragraph has given me a fever[.] O Degenerate English, ever my Dear Admiral your obliged & affectionate Nelson + Bronte." In a one-line postscript Nelson adds: "I hope we shall not have any fire in our fleet."
NELSON RAILS AGAINST "OUR MEAN, DIRTY DEGENERATE SCOUNDRELS...I BLUSH FOR MY COUNTRY...OH, DEGENERATE ENGLISH..."
Six months after the Battle of Copenhagen, Nelson pens a mercurial letter to the Admiral Lutwidge, expressing his disgust over a recent incident. In 1772, as a young man, Nelson had served as coxswain to Lutwidge on the HMS Carcass during the Phipps' Arctic Expedition. "My dear Admiral, If the morning has been very very fine I intended to have paid my respects to you, but as to dining I must beg your forgiveness. I'm dancing mad to think that our mean Dirty degenerate scoundrels[--]No I am wrong it proves they are so[--] to Drag a Damned Frenchman's Carriage, so the Miscreants would have dragged Buonaparte if our glorious Navy had permitted him to have got over, although he cannot tear our King from his Throne I hope never to be drawn by the wretches again, I blush for my Country. These Miscreants are call'd Englishmen[.] I am not well and the Ad