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Lot 138

"asses Milk and a few Months quiet may set me up again for another campaign"
Horatio Nelson

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

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"asses Milk and a few Months quiet may set me up again for another campaign"
Horatio Nelson

Autograph letter signed ("Nelson & Bronte"), to his friend and naval agent William Marsh, of Messrs Marsh & Creed, looking forward to his imminent recall ("...I shall probably if I live see You soon, asses Milk and a few Months quiet may set me up again for another campaign...") and urging Marsh to pursue his claims ("...I am sure You will do every thing for my interest but certainly I would not push the Claim if I did not believe that I have full as much right as many who have claimed for Toulon. I was sent for Troops to take care of it and got them by My own exertion..."), in which he hopes he is supported by Alexander Davison and Messrs Booth & Haslewood, one page, 4to, paper watermarked 1803, traces of mounting on verso, Victory, 4 August 1804

Footnotes

Written when Nelson was watching the French fleet bottled up in Toulon, and trying to draw them out into battle. Believing, as he wrote the same day to Sir Evan Nepean, that "my shattered carcass requires rest", he had put in for leave, but in the event was to remain at sea for a further year, until the twenty-five days shore-leave just before Trafalgar (when he took the first opportunity to call on Marsh, along with visits to William Pitt and the Admiralty). This letter appears to be unpublished and is not printed by Nicolas, Dispatches and Letters.

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