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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 20

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Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
1802 (13th May) entire A.L.S. to Robert Brent in London, the address panel with handstruck "2" in black with unframed "Two Py Poft/Unpaid/Low Tooting" with red timed oval on the reverse.


"Merton

My Dear Sir,

I feel and so does Lady Hamilton very much obliged by your kind present of seeds . I saw Mr Nepron (?) yesterday & mentioned your name he said he had every disposition and that you had seen Mr H Addington on the subject. Lady Hamilton denies me to present her said compliments to you and Mrs Brent and Believe me sir yours most faithfully

Nelson & Bronte"


The letter has been affixed to backing paper and there is some damage to the cover flap; good to fine. Photo


Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, (1757 -1844) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister from 1801 to 1804. He is best known for obtaining the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, an unfavourable peace with Napoleonic France which marked the end of the Second Coalition during the French Revolutionary Wars. When that treaty broke down he resumed the war but he was without allies and conducted a relatively weak defensive war, ahead of what would become the War of the Third Coalition.




In 1802, Nelson bought Merton Place, a country estate in Merton, Surrey (now south-west London) where he lived briefly with the Hamilton's until William's death in April 1803

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Sale 16043 Notices
The text of the letter reads that "... Lady Hamilton desires ...." (not denies). The H. Addington is likely to be his brother, Hiley Addington (who was a Lord at the Treasury) and not the Prime Minister, Henry Addington.