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HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)
Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Lady Hamilton ('My Dearest Emma'), Amazon [at Deal], 29 September 1801, 3 pages, 4to, address panel signed and dated, remains of black wax seal (one word added in a different hand).
Provenance: Alfred Morrison collection, vol. II, no.626; Edwin Wolff 2nd Collection; Christie's sale, 20 June 1990 (lot 232).
PLANS FOR LIFE AT MERTON PLACE AND REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD PARKER. 'I send by the Coach a little parcel containing the Keys of the Plate chest & the case of the tea urn, and there is a case of Colebrooke Dale Breakfast sett, and some other things ... Will you have your picture carried to Merton, and mine of the Battle of the Nile. I think you had better not have Sir William's books or any thing but what is my own ... If sheets are wanting for the beds will you order some and let me have the bill. I also think that not a servant of Sir William, I mean the Cook, should be in the house, but I leave this and all other matters to your good management'. 'Our Dear Parker's circumstances are a little out of order ... the poor [Father] is worse than nothing, I have given him money to buy mourning & to pay his passage home again ... I can with a quiet conscience when all is gone, live on bread & cheese, never mind as long as I have your friendship warm from the heart. I have got some of Dear Parker's hair which I value more than if he had left me a Bulse of Diamonds. I have sent it in the little box, keep some of it for poor Nelson'.
Nelson had purchased Merton Place for £9,000 in August, unseen, on the advice of Lady Hamilton to whom he entrusted the furnishing of it. In a letter to the Navy Agents Marsh and Creed he referred to it as 'a little farm'. Always nervous of being accused of living at Sir William's expense, he was particularly scrupulous that he should bear all the expenses of Merton himself and wrote the previous day that Sir William should always be there as his guest. The picture of Emma referred to here was Madame Vigée-le-Brun's depiction of her as a Recumbent Bacchante, previously in Sir William's collection, which Nelson had purchased earlier in the year from James Christie.
Edward Parker, Nelson's aide-de-camp and protégé, died on 27 September, of wounds received in the abortive attack on the French fleet at Boulogne in August. The Hamiltons, with Nelson's brother William, had visited Nelson at Deal shortly before, and Emma took part in the vigil by Parker's bedside. Nelson was greatly affected by his death, and had described his funeral ('the dreadful scene'), to Emma the previous day. With characteristic generosity he assisted Parker's father and later secured a modest pension for him. In accordance with his wishes the lock of Parker's hair, which he had asked Dr Baird to send to him, was placed in his own coffin before his funeral in 1806.
Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Lady Hamilton ('My Dearest Emma'), Amazon [at Deal], 29 September 1801, 3 pages, 4to, address panel signed and dated, remains of black wax seal (one word added in a different hand).
Provenance: Alfred Morrison collection, vol. II, no.626; Edwin Wolff 2nd Collection; Christie's sale, 20 June 1990 (lot 232).
PLANS FOR LIFE AT MERTON PLACE AND REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD PARKER. 'I send by the Coach a little parcel containing the Keys of the Plate chest & the case of the tea urn, and there is a case of Colebrooke Dale Breakfast sett, and some other things ... Will you have your picture carried to Merton, and mine of the Battle of the Nile. I think you had better not have Sir William's books or any thing but what is my own ... If sheets are wanting for the beds will you order some and let me have the bill. I also think that not a servant of Sir William, I mean the Cook, should be in the house, but I leave this and all other matters to your good management'. 'Our Dear Parker's circumstances are a little out of order ... the poor [Father] is worse than nothing, I have given him money to buy mourning & to pay his passage home again ... I can with a quiet conscience when all is gone, live on bread & cheese, never mind as long as I have your friendship warm from the heart. I have got some of Dear Parker's hair which I value more than if he had left me a Bulse of Diamonds. I have sent it in the little box, keep some of it for poor Nelson'.
Nelson had purchased Merton Place for £9,000 in August, unseen, on the advice of Lady Hamilton to whom he entrusted the furnishing of it. In a letter to the Navy Agents Marsh and Creed he referred to it as 'a little farm'. Always nervous of being accused of living at Sir William's expense, he was particularly scrupulous that he should bear all the expenses of Merton himself and wrote the previous day that Sir William should always be there as his guest. The picture of Emma referred to here was Madame Vigée-le-Brun's depiction of her as a Recumbent Bacchante, previously in Sir William's collection, which Nelson had purchased earlier in the year from James Christie.
Edward Parker, Nelson's aide-de-camp and protégé, died on 27 September, of wounds received in the abortive attack on the French fleet at Boulogne in August. The Hamiltons, with Nelson's brother William, had visited Nelson at Deal shortly before, and Emma took part in the vigil by Parker's bedside. Nelson was greatly affected by his death, and had described his funeral ('the dreadful scene'), to Emma the previous day. With characteristic generosity he assisted Parker's father and later secured a modest pension for him. In accordance with his wishes the lock of Parker's hair, which he had asked Dr Baird to send to him, was placed in his own coffin before his funeral in 1806.
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