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Lot 206

"a List of officers seamen and Royal Marines killed…in the action of the 21st October last"
Thomas Masterman Hardy, Captain

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

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"a List of officers seamen and Royal Marines killed…in the action of the 21st October last"
Thomas Masterman Hardy, Captain

Letter signed ("T.M. Hardy"), to the Secretary of the Patriotic Fund, enclosing "a List of officers seamen and Royal Marines killed, as well as wounded in board His Majestys ship under my Command, under three distinct Heads, severely, badly and slightly in the action of the 21st October last", one page, 4to, some wear at centre-fold with the loss of a few letters, old repair, traces of mounting on verso, "His Majestys Ship Victory at Sea 1st December 1805"

Footnotes

Captain Hardy sends in returns of the killed and wounded on HMS 'Victory' after Trafalgar: the recipient of this letter was J.P. Welsford, Secretary of the Lloyd's Patriotic Fund, established by public subscription on the renewal of war in 1802 after the Peace of Amiens. The Fund's primary aim was to help the wounded and dependents of those who had lost their lives; it also issued presentation swords and plate to officers who had distinguished themselves: a practice abandoned in 1809 because of mounting casualties in the Peninsula, which forced them to concentrate on their relief work. The Patriotic Fund papers are still held by Lloyds (see Warren Dawson, The Nelson Collection at Lloyd's, 1931, and the 2001 update prepared by Angus Gull and Felix Pryor). Among the papers at Lloyd's relating to the Victory is the return originally enclosed by Hardy with this letter (P1 493): the letter itself - which has now resurfaced - was presumably discarded by Welsford, or given away as an autograph.

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