BIB_ID
125661
Accession number
MA 321.29
Creator
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805.
Display Date
1805 Oct. 11-13.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1901.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.8 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of letters principally to and from Horatio Nelson; see main record for MA 321 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Pearson in 1901.
Summary
Alluding to the impending Battle of Trafalgar; expressing his wish that he could be at home with Emma and their daugher Horatia in Merton; mentioning the trial of Sir Robert Calder; sending her his love and asking her to "kiss dear Horatia a thousand times."
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