Beginnings: Nelson’s Early Years at Sea

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Beginnings: Nelson’s Early Years at Sea

  • The earliest known naval document relating to Nelson
    Mr Bentham, clerk in the Navy Office, autograph letter, in the third person, to Richard Kee, Navy Agent, introducing "Horatio Nelson, a young Lad Nephew to Captain Suckling", and asking for a letter of introduction to the Master of the Sea Horse, on which Nelson was to serve, 1 page, 28 October 1773
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  • Will of John Gore
    Will of John Gore, ship's carpenter on HMS Boreas, written before the ship’s departure for the West Indies, leaving his cash, goods, and chattels to his wife Rebecca, witnessed by Nelson, 1 page, 31 March 1784, partially engraved and headed by a vignette of three warships
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  • Letter to Prince William Henry, 1786
    “I arrived here a few days ago and purpose no accident happening in paying my Humble Duty to Your Royal Highness on Friday Next & Hope to see you in that good Health which I most sincerely wish. Report says the Anaconda is very soon to sail for the Newfoundland Station but the Westerly Wind even if report says true will permit me to be in good time, not indeed do I see what good end can be answer'd by your arrival at Newfoundland or America when all the Harbours are froze up…”


    Horatio Nelson, autograph letter signed, to Prince William Henry [the future William IV], Exmouth, 22 April 1786
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