BIB_ID
125651
Accession number
MA 807.1
Creator
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805.
Display Date
1805 May 7.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 23.9 cm
Notes
This letter is laid into the original autograph manuscript of Lord Nelson's Will (MA 807).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Walter Vernon Daniell in 1911.
Summary
Transmitting two codicils to his will relating to bequests to Lady Hamilton; saying that "Lady Hamilton should have five hundred pounds a year out of my Estate at Bronte and in the other Codicil which I also send you that two thousand Pounds should be paid to Lady Hamilton. You will place them with the other Codicil which I sent you wherein I give four thousand Pounds sterling to my adopted Daughter Horatia Nelson Thompson, and I beg that you will place these Codicils with my will & other Codicils in case it should please God to summon me from this world."
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