NELSON, Horatio. Autograph letter signed to Lady Hamilton ('My dearest Emma'), n.p. [Amphion at Sea], 25 May - 4 June 1803 , writing while sailing to take up his Mediterranean command, 'Here we are in the middle of the Bay of Biscay nothing to be seen but the sky and water ... Hardy takes good care of us and the Amphion is very comfortable'; chafing at the ship's slow progress, blaming it on Admiralty orders and regretting the Victory ; assuring her that she and Horatia are remembered, 'Your dear picture and H. are hung up It revives me even to look upon them. Your health is as regularly drunk as ever the third toast & that is all we drink'; recording the progress towards Gibraltar where the Amphion captures a brig from the West Indies, subscribing himself 'your most faithful affectionate & attached Nelson & Bronte' and adding in a postscript 'I am much hurried for they know nothing of the war', 3 pages, 4to , autograph address panel ('Lady Hamilton Merton Surrey') signed with initials (strengthened with tape at the margin, margins and seal tear professionally repaired with loss of 3 words). 'I am very anxious to get to my station this is all lost time and the sooner I get to work the sooner if it pleases God I shall return'. The difficulty of sending letters securely to Lady Hamilton led Nelson to write to her as in the present letter, in the form of a journal, adding a few lines as they occurred to him. Having left Portsmouth under orders to offer the Victory to Admiral Cornwallis off Brest, unable to find him but leaving the ship to await him, Nelson was continuing with unconcealed annoyance on the Amphion , attributing to this the delay in his arrival in the Mediterranean, 'May 26 - We have now got a foul wind thanks to the Admiralty and our not finding Cornwallis off Brest for we could with ease have been round Cape St. Vincent when this would have been a fair wind'. News of their progress is interspersed with mentions of his entourage, including Surton, in desperation when left behind on the Victory , and 'William very seasick'. Arriving at Gibraltar a few days after Jerome Bonaparte passed through the straits in a ship from Martinique, the hurried postcript suggests that the news that England was again at war had only reached the colony with his appearance off the Rock.
NELSON, Horatio. Autograph letter signed to Lady Hamilton ('My dearest Emma'), n.p. [Amphion at Sea], 25 May - 4 June 1803 , writing while sailing to take up his Mediterranean command, 'Here we are in the middle of the Bay of Biscay nothing to be seen but the sky and water ... Hardy takes good care of us and the Amphion is very comfortable'; chafing at the ship's slow progress, blaming it on Admiralty orders and regretting the Victory ; assuring her that she and Horatia are remembered, 'Your dear picture and H. are hung up It revives me even to look upon them. Your health is as regularly drunk as ever the third toast & that is all we drink'; recording the progress towards Gibraltar where the Amphion captures a brig from the West Indies, subscribing himself 'your most faithful affectionate & attached Nelson & Bronte' and adding in a postscript 'I am much hurried for they know nothing of the war', 3 pages, 4to , autograph address panel ('Lady Hamilton Merton Surrey') signed with initials (strengthened with tape at the margin, margins and seal tear professionally repaired with loss of 3 words). 'I am very anxious to get to my station this is all lost time and the sooner I get to work the sooner if it pleases God I shall return'. The difficulty of sending letters securely to Lady Hamilton led Nelson to write to her as in the present letter, in the form of a journal, adding a few lines as they occurred to him. Having left Portsmouth under orders to offer the Victory to Admiral Cornwallis off Brest, unable to find him but leaving the ship to await him, Nelson was continuing with unconcealed annoyance on the Amphion , attributing to this the delay in his arrival in the Mediterranean, 'May 26 - We have now got a foul wind thanks to the Admiralty and our not finding Cornwallis off Brest for we could with ease have been round Cape St. Vincent when this would have been a fair wind'. News of their progress is interspersed with mentions of his entourage, including Surton, in desperation when left behind on the Victory , and 'William very seasick'. Arriving at Gibraltar a few days after Jerome Bonaparte passed through the straits in a ship from Martinique, the hurried postcript suggests that the news that England was again at war had only reached the colony with his appearance off the Rock.
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