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Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to George Rose, Albemarle Street, [London], 29 August 1805
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Horatio Nelson, Viscount Nelson (1758-1805)
Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to George Rose, Albemarle Street, [London], 29 August 1805
Two pages, 230 x 186mm, bifolium, docket on integral blank.
Asking for patronage for his brother-in-law during his last period of shore leave. Writing to his friend George Rose, a close colleague of the prime minister William Pitt, Nelson asks for a paid government job for his brother-in-law, Thomas Bolton, explaining that although he had seen Pitt himself he could not bring himself to ask for this favour:
Although I certainly want nothing for my individual self Yet You and every one must be sensitive that I have many and dear relatives who I am anxious to get something for and such a place as they will do credit to both as Servants of the State and to my character as recommending them. / Therefore I wish Mr Pitt would give Me for My Brother In Law Mr Thomas Bolton Father of one of the Heirs of my title, a Commissionership in either the Customs, Excise or Navy Office. The first would be most preferable. / Although I have seen Mr Pitt, Yet at a time when he is pleased to think that my services may be wanted, I could not bring my Mouth to ask a favor therefore I beg it may pass thro’ You.
The politician George Rose (1744-1818), at this date joint paymaster-general and vice-president of the Board of Trade, had been a friend of Nelson's since his days as a young captain: by some accounts he was the last man in England to see Nelson alive, having been invited on board Victory before Nelson's final departure for Trafalgar. Thomas Bolton, the husband of Nelson's sister Susannah, was the father of Thomas Bolton, later Thomas Nelson, who succeeded as 2nd Earl Nelson in 1835.
Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to George Rose, Albemarle Street, [London], 29 August 1805
Two pages, 230 x 186mm, bifolium, docket on integral blank.
Asking for patronage for his brother-in-law during his last period of shore leave. Writing to his friend George Rose, a close colleague of the prime minister William Pitt, Nelson asks for a paid government job for his brother-in-law, Thomas Bolton, explaining that although he had seen Pitt himself he could not bring himself to ask for this favour:
Although I certainly want nothing for my individual self Yet You and every one must be sensitive that I have many and dear relatives who I am anxious to get something for and such a place as they will do credit to both as Servants of the State and to my character as recommending them. / Therefore I wish Mr Pitt would give Me for My Brother In Law Mr Thomas Bolton Father of one of the Heirs of my title, a Commissionership in either the Customs, Excise or Navy Office. The first would be most preferable. / Although I have seen Mr Pitt, Yet at a time when he is pleased to think that my services may be wanted, I could not bring my Mouth to ask a favor therefore I beg it may pass thro’ You.
The politician George Rose (1744-1818), at this date joint paymaster-general and vice-president of the Board of Trade, had been a friend of Nelson's since his days as a young captain: by some accounts he was the last man in England to see Nelson alive, having been invited on board Victory before Nelson's final departure for Trafalgar. Thomas Bolton, the husband of Nelson's sister Susannah, was the father of Thomas Bolton, later Thomas Nelson, who succeeded as 2nd Earl Nelson in 1835.
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