Domestic Life

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Domestic Life

  • A Friendship Between Sarah Nelson and Lady Hamilton
    “You never my dearest Lady Hamilton said a truer thing, when you said our Hearts were congenial, I can with great truth say — from the moment I first had the pleasure of seeing you, I admired you, and your kind attention since, makes me love you with such sincere love that no time can ever abate, & if our circumstance and situation would admit of it, I should be most happy to live near you...”

    Sarah Nelson, wife of Nelson’s eldest brother, autograph letter signed, to Emma Hamilton, 3 pages, Hillsborough near Brandon, 22 February 1801
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  • A Letter from William Nelson
    “My dear Lady, For I must call you by that name as I feel myself highly honoured in being permitted to do it. I cannot find words to express the grief I feel in leaving London, & such amiable society as yours, indeed I have been scarce able to speak a word the whole journey, your image & voice are constantly before my imagination & I can think of nothing else....it is no wonder that my good, my great, my virtuous, my beloved Brother should be so attached to your Ladyship”

    Rev. William Nelson, autograph letter signed, to Emma Hamilton, 3 pages, 19 February 1801
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  • 'My Dear Hor': a Letter from Father to Son
    “…I have to acknowledge many kind, and polite Invitations from yr self, and Lady H:, to visit Merton which, it is my intention to accept, before me winter Residence commence at Bath…”

    Rev. Edmund Nelson, autograph letter signed, to his son Horatio Nelson (“My Dear Hor:”), 1 page, Hilborough, 2 November 1801
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  • William Hamilton's Fishing Fervor
    “…I am determined to have my fill of Fishing on the Thames this year as I am well, & know not if I shall be able to do the same next year. It really agrees with me, and the Thames is glorious...”

    Sir William Hamilton, autograph letter signed, to Emma Hamilton, on how he is passing the time whilst his wife lives openly with Nelson, 4 pages, Staines, 6 September 1802
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  • Compensation for Services
    "...I feel very great reluctance in troubling you with any personal concern of mine; but I am really compelled to … His Majesty was graciously pleased, on account of my services in the Battle of the Nile, to bestow on me the high Honour of a Peerage of Great Britain, and to recommend it to Parliament to enable Him to grant a pension of £2000 a year to me..."

    Horatio Nelson, partially autograph draft memorandum, to Prime Minister Addington, complaining at the meagre compensation he has received for his victories, 4 pages, 1 March 1803
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  • A Dream of Horatia
    “...I dreamt last night I heard her call papa & point to her arm just as you described..."

    Horatio Nelson, autograph letter, unsigned, to Emma Hamilton, on their daughter Horatia, undated [April 1804]
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