HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)
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HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)

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HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)

Autograph letter signed (with the right hand, 'Horatio Nelson') to Messrs Marsh and Creed, Leghorn, 28 October 1795, one page, 4to (integral leaf removed, slightly discoloured, small smudge in lower left corner, small tear and split in left hand edge).

Instructions to his agents to pay '35 £ sterling' to Captain Wolseley, 'and I need not say that you will always attend to Mrs Nelson's demands for what money she may call for', and on the difficulty of finding time to get his accounts done. Nelson had written to Fanny the previous year that she should not be 'sparing' in sending to Marsh and Creed (the Navy Agents in the Strand) for money.
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