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Auction: 20025 - Historical Documents, Postal History and Autographs
Lot: 576

Napoleonic Wars
Lord Cuthbert Collingwood
1803 (3 Dec.) letter signed to William Marsden, Secretary of the Admiralty, from "Queen, off Carthagena" reading "I am to acknowledge the receipt of the order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty ... directing me to take the Acasta under my command -; which I did yesterday when she joined me". Signed "Cuthb Collingwood".

Lord Cuthbert Collingwood (1750 - 1810) Vice-admiral and second in command at Trafalgar.

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Estimate
£400 to £500

Starting price
£400