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HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)
Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Major General [William Anne] Villettes, Victory, 27 August 1803, two pages, 4to, integral blank, docketed by recipient, window-mounted, in a red calf portfolio.
THE WAITING GAME WITH THE FRENCH FLEET. Nelson attempts to be philosophical at the long wait for a French sortie: 'one day merely passeth away & another cometh, patience is a virtue with us, the Enemy are ready to come forth, and we are perfectly ready to meet them, the time must be left to them, but it will arrive and soon in my opinion, & hope keeps us alert & healthy'; the letter goes on to comment on news of disturbances in Dublin, on the likely disposition of Spain, noting also that 'Large bodies of Troops are collected at Genoa & at Toulon, that they are fixed to invade Sardinia is also certain', though he remarks sceptically that preparations there and in Sardinia are intended 'more to keep us from interfering than to keep the French out', concluding 'God grant us an honourable Peace and soon', adding in a postscript that Villettes should send on some papers to Sir Alexander Ball [de facto governor of Malta] 'and then they had better be burnt'.
William Anne Villettes (1754-1808) had been entrusted, alongside Nelson, with the siege of Bastia in 1794. From 1801 he served in Malta, succeeding as commander in the island in 1801, and as commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean in 1802.
Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Major General [William Anne] Villettes, Victory, 27 August 1803, two pages, 4to, integral blank, docketed by recipient, window-mounted, in a red calf portfolio.
THE WAITING GAME WITH THE FRENCH FLEET. Nelson attempts to be philosophical at the long wait for a French sortie: 'one day merely passeth away & another cometh, patience is a virtue with us, the Enemy are ready to come forth, and we are perfectly ready to meet them, the time must be left to them, but it will arrive and soon in my opinion, & hope keeps us alert & healthy'; the letter goes on to comment on news of disturbances in Dublin, on the likely disposition of Spain, noting also that 'Large bodies of Troops are collected at Genoa & at Toulon, that they are fixed to invade Sardinia is also certain', though he remarks sceptically that preparations there and in Sardinia are intended 'more to keep us from interfering than to keep the French out', concluding 'God grant us an honourable Peace and soon', adding in a postscript that Villettes should send on some papers to Sir Alexander Ball [de facto governor of Malta] 'and then they had better be burnt'.
William Anne Villettes (1754-1808) had been entrusted, alongside Nelson, with the siege of Bastia in 1794. From 1801 he served in Malta, succeeding as commander in the island in 1801, and as commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean in 1802.
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