![NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to [Lady Hamilton], n.p. [Cape St Sebastian], n.d., [March 1804], 3 pages, 4to, autograph address panel on verso of 2nd leaf, traces of seal (small tear in blank area of leaf, traces of guard). Provenance: Edwin Wolf 2nd Collection (Christie's sale, 21.6.1989, lot 260).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2003/CKS/2003_CKS_06868_0151_000(064750).jpg?w=1)
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NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to [Lady Hamilton], n.p. [Cape St Sebastian], n.d., [March 1804], 3 pages, 4to, autograph address panel on verso of 2nd leaf, traces of seal (small tear in blank area of leaf, traces of guard). Provenance: Edwin Wolf 2nd Collection (Christie's sale, 21.6.1989, lot 260).
Nelson learns of the birth of his second child by Lady Hamilton.
Throughout January and February Nelson was writing to Emma Hamilton in a fever of anxiety over an unspecified 'indisposition'. Now thirty-eight, she gave birth to their second child early in the year. Learning in March that she and the baby had survived, he writes 'not all this world's goods or charms could shake my love and affection for my own dearest Emma; that, Horatia's being so ill and you so much indisposed gave me a raging fever all night ... Kiss our dear Horatia for me. I approve of the name you intended.'
The child was to be called after its mother, but on 2 April Nelson received the news that 'dear little Emma' had not survived. Throughout the preceding months his letters to Lady Hamilton betray his intense anxiety about her and Horatia, who was ill, referring often to his own feverish symptoms. The present letter also replies to comments in hers of 15 and 28 January, apparently remarking on his reported acquaintance with a lady in Gibraltar, whom he cannnot identify, but concluding with fervent declarations of his confidence in their mutual love, and assurances of fidelity.
Nelson learns of the birth of his second child by Lady Hamilton.
Throughout January and February Nelson was writing to Emma Hamilton in a fever of anxiety over an unspecified 'indisposition'. Now thirty-eight, she gave birth to their second child early in the year. Learning in March that she and the baby had survived, he writes 'not all this world's goods or charms could shake my love and affection for my own dearest Emma; that, Horatia's being so ill and you so much indisposed gave me a raging fever all night ... Kiss our dear Horatia for me. I approve of the name you intended.'
The child was to be called after its mother, but on 2 April Nelson received the news that 'dear little Emma' had not survived. Throughout the preceding months his letters to Lady Hamilton betray his intense anxiety about her and Horatia, who was ill, referring often to his own feverish symptoms. The present letter also replies to comments in hers of 15 and 28 January, apparently remarking on his reported acquaintance with a lady in Gibraltar, whom he cannnot identify, but concluding with fervent declarations of his confidence in their mutual love, and assurances of fidelity.
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