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HORATIO, VISCOUNT NELSON (1758-1805)
Autograph letter signed ('your much obliged Nelson & Bronte') to Theophilus Richards, Merton, 28 September 1802, one page, 4to, integral leaf addressed to 'Theop[hilu]s Richards Esq, Birmingham', docketed by the recipient (seal tears in centre fold touching one word and small splits in outer edge of 2nd leaf).
TOYS FOR HORATIA. Reporting that he has tried to get 'your friend Marine Joseph Bell' discharged but Sir Thomas Troubridge said that it would be impossible and that 'the two cases of things are arrived perfectly safe here', and conveying the respects of 'Sir William Lady Hamilton and [a]ll our party'.
Nelson, with Sir William and Lady Hamilton, had visited Birmingham during their tour of the Midlands and Wales in July and August 1802. The purpose of their journey was to visit Sir William's estate at Milford Haven, and they were accompanied by Nelson's brother, the Reverend Dr William Nelson, and his wife, and their children, Charlotte and Horace. Returning by way of Birmingham at the end of August Nelson was rapturously received. The party visited factories making swords, buttons, japan ware, stained glass, coins and medals, a whip manufactory and others including 'the extensive toy warehouse of Messrs Richards' (C.Hibbert, Nelson (1994), 310). The latter were presumably the suppliers of the two cases of 'things' referred to here, some of which were very probably toys intended for Nelson's daughter by Lady Hamilton, Horatia, born at the beginning of the previous year. Marine Joseph Bell may have been a member of the Richards family. Sir Thomas Troubridge led the British fleet into action at Cape St Vincent, and was one of Nelson's Nile 'Band of Brothers'.
Autograph letter signed ('your much obliged Nelson & Bronte') to Theophilus Richards, Merton, 28 September 1802, one page, 4to, integral leaf addressed to 'Theop[hilu]s Richards Esq, Birmingham', docketed by the recipient (seal tears in centre fold touching one word and small splits in outer edge of 2nd leaf).
TOYS FOR HORATIA. Reporting that he has tried to get 'your friend Marine Joseph Bell' discharged but Sir Thomas Troubridge said that it would be impossible and that 'the two cases of things are arrived perfectly safe here', and conveying the respects of 'Sir William Lady Hamilton and [a]ll our party'.
Nelson, with Sir William and Lady Hamilton, had visited Birmingham during their tour of the Midlands and Wales in July and August 1802. The purpose of their journey was to visit Sir William's estate at Milford Haven, and they were accompanied by Nelson's brother, the Reverend Dr William Nelson, and his wife, and their children, Charlotte and Horace. Returning by way of Birmingham at the end of August Nelson was rapturously received. The party visited factories making swords, buttons, japan ware, stained glass, coins and medals, a whip manufactory and others including 'the extensive toy warehouse of Messrs Richards' (C.Hibbert, Nelson (1994), 310). The latter were presumably the suppliers of the two cases of 'things' referred to here, some of which were very probably toys intended for Nelson's daughter by Lady Hamilton, Horatia, born at the beginning of the previous year. Marine Joseph Bell may have been a member of the Richards family. Sir Thomas Troubridge led the British fleet into action at Cape St Vincent, and was one of Nelson's Nile 'Band of Brothers'.
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