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Auction archive: Lot number 25

NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805) Autograph letter signe...

Estimate
£8,000 - £12,000
ca. US$12,648 - US$18,972
Price realised:
£8,750
ca. US$13,834
Auction archive: Lot number 25

NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805) Autograph letter signe...

Estimate
£8,000 - £12,000
ca. US$12,648 - US$18,972
Price realised:
£8,750
ca. US$13,834
Beschreibung:

NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Mr Walterstorff, St George , Kioge Bay, 16 June 1801, 1½ pages, large 4to , address panel signed (minor soiling).
NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Mr Walterstorff, St George , Kioge Bay, 16 June 1801, 1½ pages, large 4to , address panel signed (minor soiling). NELSON'S MANIFESTO OF LEADERSHIP: 'say to your men, Let us go and do this service, and not say Go you and do that service'. Nelson sends to the recipient a Nile medal, a portrait print of himself and two printed accounts of his life and actions, noting self-deprecatingly 'Although I am confident that you may select many more Bright examples to follow if you take to a military Life, yet perhaps mine will mark to you that a strict perseverance in the Road of honor, Loyalty to your King, Affection for those who fight with you, (always observing to say to your men, Let us go and do this service, and not say Go you and do that service,) this conduct has gain'd me the noblest rewards from my Good Sovereign, and Repeated by the thanks of my Country'. The letter goes on with the advice 'Always be true to your Country', and to beware of 'Foreigners' or 'Republicans' in the Danish royal councils, who will be enemies to the monarchical form of government; he concludes 'Love your King and your Country and they will Love you'. The recipient is the son of Major-General Ernst Frederik Walterstorff (1755-1820), one of the commissioners for negotiating the terms of the armistice after the Battle of Copenhagen (2 April).

Auction archive: Lot number 25
Auction:
Datum:
23 Nov 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
23 November 2011, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Mr Walterstorff, St George , Kioge Bay, 16 June 1801, 1½ pages, large 4to , address panel signed (minor soiling).
NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Autograph letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Mr Walterstorff, St George , Kioge Bay, 16 June 1801, 1½ pages, large 4to , address panel signed (minor soiling). NELSON'S MANIFESTO OF LEADERSHIP: 'say to your men, Let us go and do this service, and not say Go you and do that service'. Nelson sends to the recipient a Nile medal, a portrait print of himself and two printed accounts of his life and actions, noting self-deprecatingly 'Although I am confident that you may select many more Bright examples to follow if you take to a military Life, yet perhaps mine will mark to you that a strict perseverance in the Road of honor, Loyalty to your King, Affection for those who fight with you, (always observing to say to your men, Let us go and do this service, and not say Go you and do that service,) this conduct has gain'd me the noblest rewards from my Good Sovereign, and Repeated by the thanks of my Country'. The letter goes on with the advice 'Always be true to your Country', and to beware of 'Foreigners' or 'Republicans' in the Danish royal councils, who will be enemies to the monarchical form of government; he concludes 'Love your King and your Country and they will Love you'. The recipient is the son of Major-General Ernst Frederik Walterstorff (1755-1820), one of the commissioners for negotiating the terms of the armistice after the Battle of Copenhagen (2 April).

Auction archive: Lot number 25
Auction:
Datum:
23 Nov 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
23 November 2011, London, King Street
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