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HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)
Autograph letter signed ('Nelson') to Mrs William Suckling ('My Dear Madam'), Palermo, 22 August 1799, one page, 4to (even browning), integral address leaf, framed and glazed in a substantial hinged oak double frame described as of 'oak from HMS "Victory" in which he fell' (crack to glass on verso), 475 x 400mm.
THE DEATH OF NELSON'S UNCLE WILLIAM SUCKLING AND NELSON'S ELEVATION AS DUKE OF BRONTE. Nelson offers condolences -- 'I can easily conceive the great affliction you must have suffered in losing two Friends so justly dear to you. My Dear Uncle God only knows with what disinterested affection I loved him ... If you & Mr Hume will Sign a power of attorney and send it out to me I shall Sign it ... but in this and all other matters which can add to your comfort I am at your disposal'. A postscript adds the good news that 'His Sicilian Majesty has Created me Duke of Bronte and has annexed an Estate of 3000 Pounds Sterling a Year, both Title & Estate at my disposal together with a magnificient Diamond Hilted Sword'.
Nelson's uncle William (1730-1798), the Comptroller of Customs whose house in Kentish Town had been a frequent base for Nelson, and who had offered support in particular during his nephew's years in the West Indies, had died on 15 December 1798, appointing Nelson co-executor together with Mr Hume, and leaving him £100. William Suckling had kept a mistress for some years, marrying Miss Rumsey of Hampstead only in the mid 1780s. The second death referred to is presumably that of Nelson's own younger brother, Revd Suckling Nelson.
Autograph letter signed ('Nelson') to Mrs William Suckling ('My Dear Madam'), Palermo, 22 August 1799, one page, 4to (even browning), integral address leaf, framed and glazed in a substantial hinged oak double frame described as of 'oak from HMS "Victory" in which he fell' (crack to glass on verso), 475 x 400mm.
THE DEATH OF NELSON'S UNCLE WILLIAM SUCKLING AND NELSON'S ELEVATION AS DUKE OF BRONTE. Nelson offers condolences -- 'I can easily conceive the great affliction you must have suffered in losing two Friends so justly dear to you. My Dear Uncle God only knows with what disinterested affection I loved him ... If you & Mr Hume will Sign a power of attorney and send it out to me I shall Sign it ... but in this and all other matters which can add to your comfort I am at your disposal'. A postscript adds the good news that 'His Sicilian Majesty has Created me Duke of Bronte and has annexed an Estate of 3000 Pounds Sterling a Year, both Title & Estate at my disposal together with a magnificient Diamond Hilted Sword'.
Nelson's uncle William (1730-1798), the Comptroller of Customs whose house in Kentish Town had been a frequent base for Nelson, and who had offered support in particular during his nephew's years in the West Indies, had died on 15 December 1798, appointing Nelson co-executor together with Mr Hume, and leaving him £100. William Suckling had kept a mistress for some years, marrying Miss Rumsey of Hampstead only in the mid 1780s. The second death referred to is presumably that of Nelson's own younger brother, Revd Suckling Nelson.
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