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NELSON -- SCOTT, John (d.1805, Nelson's Official Secretary). Letter Book including 54 letters addressed to various correspondents in London, Malta, Gibraltar etc., Victory, 30 July 1803 - 27 September 1805 , on Lord Nelson's business, mostly on matters relating to the distribution of prize money and the disposal of captured ships, including in several lists of cargoes (from the Lesteois Antoine , taken on 6 August 1803, '669 Sacks Galls, 1 Ball of Goat Hair, 3 Sacks Raw Silk', also wax, guns, drugs etc.), mentioning antiquities taken by the Maidstone 'and no doubt very handsomely paid for by Government', in several letters consulting lawyers 'in some points of great doubt', also referring to the need to avoid a misunderstanding with Sir John Orde, and finally on his departure with Nelson to the West Indies, appointing his own executors, 44 pages, folio (320 x 210mm) , blanks, contemporary calf. Joh Scott was appointed Official Secretary to Nelson in May 1803. Nelson wrote of him 'My Secretary I esteem a Treasure. He is not only a clever man but indefatigable in his business and an extraordinarily well-behaved, modest man'. Mrs. Scott was also treated with much kindness by Lady Hamilton. Scott was with Nelson at Merton in 1805. In a codicil to Nelson's Will, Scott was named as custodian with Hardy of all Nelson's papers and effects for his executors. But he was killed at Nelson's side, by one of the first shots to reach the Victory at Trafalgar.