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NELSON, Admiral HORATIO, Viscount. Letter signed ("Horatio Nelson") to Francis Drake, Vado Bay, 8 August 1795. One page, 4to, integral blank leaf docketed on verso, one quarter-inch tear, matted with an engraved portrait, glazed in a giltwood frame.
After losing an eye during the British occupation of Corsica in 1794, Nelson was detached with his ship the Agamemnon to the Italian Riviera in July 1795, where as commodore of the inshore squadron he spent a year harassing the French communication lines, in cooperation with the Austrians.
"I have just received your letter of yesterday's Date, and am sorry to say that I am very ill as not to be able to write to you myself, but I hope the precautions that were taken will prevent the French from escaping and the moment Admiral Hotham [the commander-in-chief] is seen off here I shall communicate it to you. [Postscript:] Since writing the above I have received your letter dated Aug. 4 acquainting me of the peace between France and Spain."
After losing an eye during the British occupation of Corsica in 1794, Nelson was detached with his ship the Agamemnon to the Italian Riviera in July 1795, where as commodore of the inshore squadron he spent a year harassing the French communication lines, in cooperation with the Austrians.
"I have just received your letter of yesterday's Date, and am sorry to say that I am very ill as not to be able to write to you myself, but I hope the precautions that were taken will prevent the French from escaping and the moment Admiral Hotham [the commander-in-chief] is seen off here I shall communicate it to you. [Postscript:] Since writing the above I have received your letter dated Aug. 4 acquainting me of the peace between France and Spain."