Emma after Nelson

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Emma after Nelson

  • Emma, Broken Hearted
    “…I have been so so very ill and I am So Broken Hearted that I can scarcely hold my pen to thank you for your delightful & consoling letter … you encourage me to go forth if there were more Emmas there wou'd be more Nelsons these last words still I hear...I feel proud when I think that I was beloved by Him…”

    Emma Hamilton, autograph letter signed, to William Hayley, in reply to a letter of condolence, 6 pages, Clarges Street, London, 29 January 1806
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  • Financial Aid from William Nelson
    “…I am very sorry to find your payments are from untoward circumstances so unfortunately delayed. I have no doubt they will be regularly paid to you as soon as my Brother's affairs are settled…”

    Rev. William Nelson, Earl Nelson, autograph letter signed, to Emma Hamilton, on her mounting financial problems, 2 pages, Hilborough, 25 July 1806
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  • A Plea for Help
    “…may I hope that you will read this for you are the only Hope I have in this world […] I do not wish to have more than what I have I can Live on that at Richmond only that I may Live free from fear that every debt may be paid I think & Hope fifteen thousand pounds will do for every thing…”

    Emma Hamilton, autograph letter signed, to William, Fourth Duke of Queensberry, pleading for financial support, 4 pages, Richmond, 4 September 1808
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  • Continued Financial Distress
    “…the Regent also is anxious I wrote to him […] & He sent me word He had sent & spoken to the ministers but then why is he a Regent of nothing Those Liverpools &c &c Keep their places & are crouching to him what did Liverpool do to get so many sinecures did he ever do as much as myself to serve his Country but why speak of such Trash as him – oh Look I hope to have Justice…”

    Emma Hamilton, autograph letter signed, to Sir Richard Puleson, 3 pages, 12 Temple Place, Blackfriars, 3 August 1813
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