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Lot 118

"If Sir Hyde once gets his foot ashore in England"
Horatio Nelson

5 July 2005, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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"If Sir Hyde once gets his foot ashore in England"
Horatio Nelson

Autograph letter signed ("Nelson & Bronte"), to his friend Sir Thomas Troubridge, written from the Baltic three weeks after the Battle of Copenhagen, remarking caustically of the Commander-in-Chief to whom he had turned a blind eye "If Sir Hyde once gets his foot ashore in England I do not think that any thing will get him afloat again", and complaining that "My health and circumstances loudly call for my presence in England" ("...in less than a fortnight I hope to have You by the hand and if We are ordered to Yarmouth or wherever it may be I beg that I may have leave to go to London..."), and sends his "best respects to Lord St Vincent"; subscribing himself "Your most affectionate friend", one page, 4to, integral leaf removed, St George, Kioge Bay, 25 April 1801

Footnotes

Troubridge was one of the most prominent of Nelson's 'Band of Brothers', fighting with him at St Vincent and the Nile, and was, like his friend, a protégé of St Vincent's: "In his later years St Vincent must have pondered on the fate of his two protégés. Nelson had gained enduring fame, and Troubridge, of whom St Vincent thought more highly, went down with all hands in his ship the Blenheim on passage from India to Cape Town in 1807. He had always been unlucky" (Edgar Vincent, 'Exeunt Omnes', Nelson: Love and Fame, 2003, p.286). This letter is not published by Nicolas, Dispatches and Letters or White, New Letters.

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