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Horatio, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805)
Autograph letter signed ('Horatio Nelson') to Cuthbert Collingwood ('My dear Coll'), Boreas, English Harbour, [Antigua], 28 September 1785, 2 pages, 4to (light browning; light wear to inner margin and five short tears to upper and lower margins, of which one skilfully repaired).
AN EARLY AND AFFECTIONATE LETTER TO CUTHBERT COLLINGWOOD, LATER HIS SECOND-IN-COMMAND AT TRAFALGAR. 'Although really I am half dead yet I will not suffer Latona to sail, without answering my good Friend's letter', assuring him that 'Ministers will afford ... the protection they stand in need of' to officers who risk civil prosecution in the course of duty, quoting a letter of support from [his maternal uncle William] Suckling, 'who belongs to the Custom house: he is a person who has been in that Office since a boy and is consulted in all doubtful cases'; Nelson refers also to a letter from [Mary] Moutray [with whom he had been carrying on a flirtation in Antigua] which had reached him with the seal broken -- 'it is very odd both our letters should be in the same situation -- they were welcome to read mine it was all goodness like the Dear Writer', ending with typical Nelsonian vigour 'I am to get to Nevis with all expedition to catch Yankee's. My Dear Boy I want some more prize money. I can't write more Bless You My head is so bad'.
Nelson had caused a furore in the West Indies by his seizure of a number of American ships in strict enforcement of the Navigation Laws which forbade American vessels from trading with the British colonies, a measure deeply unpopular with the West India planters whose only outlet for trade and source of supplies this was. Nelson's measures, in which he was supported by Cuthbert Collingwood, then a frigate captain, brought him into direct conflict with the commander-in-chief, Sir Richard Hughes. The resulting court cases were to pursue him for some years. Nelson's haste to return to Nevis may possibly be connected with the presence there of the young widow Fanny Nisbet, to whom he had become engaged after a whirlwind courtship.
Autograph letter signed ('Horatio Nelson') to Cuthbert Collingwood ('My dear Coll'), Boreas, English Harbour, [Antigua], 28 September 1785, 2 pages, 4to (light browning; light wear to inner margin and five short tears to upper and lower margins, of which one skilfully repaired).
AN EARLY AND AFFECTIONATE LETTER TO CUTHBERT COLLINGWOOD, LATER HIS SECOND-IN-COMMAND AT TRAFALGAR. 'Although really I am half dead yet I will not suffer Latona to sail, without answering my good Friend's letter', assuring him that 'Ministers will afford ... the protection they stand in need of' to officers who risk civil prosecution in the course of duty, quoting a letter of support from [his maternal uncle William] Suckling, 'who belongs to the Custom house: he is a person who has been in that Office since a boy and is consulted in all doubtful cases'; Nelson refers also to a letter from [Mary] Moutray [with whom he had been carrying on a flirtation in Antigua] which had reached him with the seal broken -- 'it is very odd both our letters should be in the same situation -- they were welcome to read mine it was all goodness like the Dear Writer', ending with typical Nelsonian vigour 'I am to get to Nevis with all expedition to catch Yankee's. My Dear Boy I want some more prize money. I can't write more Bless You My head is so bad'.
Nelson had caused a furore in the West Indies by his seizure of a number of American ships in strict enforcement of the Navigation Laws which forbade American vessels from trading with the British colonies, a measure deeply unpopular with the West India planters whose only outlet for trade and source of supplies this was. Nelson's measures, in which he was supported by Cuthbert Collingwood, then a frigate captain, brought him into direct conflict with the commander-in-chief, Sir Richard Hughes. The resulting court cases were to pursue him for some years. Nelson's haste to return to Nevis may possibly be connected with the presence there of the young widow Fanny Nisbet, to whom he had become engaged after a whirlwind courtship.
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