Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
May 1919
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/394
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I may be beat, but I can always have one consolation, that it shall be hard work, and whilst I am backed with a just cause and the prayers of all good people, I flatter myself it would be no very easy task. I know mankind well enough to be sure that there are those in England who wish me at the Devil, etc. to Lady Hamilton, with address and seal : All your letters, my dearest, best friend, to the 17th, came safe on the eve of your natal day. You will readily conceive the pleasure they must have given me to know you, my dear amiable, still take an interest in my glory. I transfer it all to my guardian angel Santa Emma. Yesterday 1 had twenty-four at dinner and drank at dinner ina bumper of champaine ‘Santa Emma. ‘The fourth toast after dinner came as usual, your mortal part, without a compliment, for I scorn to say what I do not believe, it is that you are an angel upon earth. Iam serious... You are above mortal, nothing ever did or ever Can equal your excellent head, heart, person and beauty, etc. 1801, to. Lady Hamilton.—HaMILTON (Emma) Auto. Verses, 28 lines, 24 pp. 4to, . d. [April, 1801], to Nelson. Nelson’s letters speak of his speedy return to England: we quote the first, fourth and fifth of Lady Hamilton’s verses . (3) Silent grief and sad forebodings (Lest I ne’er should see him more) Fill my heart when gallant Nelson Hoists BLUE PETER at the fore. Oft he kissed my lips at parting And at every kiss he swore, Nought could force him from my bosom, Save Blue Peter at the fore. Oh that I might with my Nelson, ’ Sail the wide world o’er and o’er, Never should I then with sorrow, See Blue Peter at the fore. 3245 Lady Hamilton ; and another : (2) Much having been said relative to the bad terms of the Armistice made with Denmark, I wish to observe, first, that the Armistice was only intended a military one, and that all political subjects were left for the discussion of the Ministers of the two Powers. ... By the Armistice we tied the arms of Denmark for four months from assisting our enemies and her allies, whilst we had every part of Denmark and its provinces open to give us everything we wanted, etc. May 26—-Fune 1, 1801, to Lady Hamilton: My dearest, best, amiable friend—I have been annoyed to death for an hour this day. The Duke of Mecklenburgh, with his whole :