Record ID:
125651
Accession number:
MA 807.1
Credit:
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).
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."
Provenance:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Walter Vernon Daniell in 1911.
Catalog Link:
Department: