NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Rear Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, 2nd Bt, Victory at Sea, 21 March 1804.

NELSON, Horatio, Viscount (1758-1805). Letter signed ('Nelson & Bronte') to Rear Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, 2nd Bt, Victory at Sea, 21 March 1804.

Two pages, 320 x 196mm. Provenance: sale at Christie's, 19 October 2005, lot 218.

An order during the blockade of Toulon. Nelson grants Bickerton's request to have the purser of the Kent, 'Mr Boyes', seconded as his secretary on the Royal Sovereign. Bickerton was Nelson's second-in-command in the Mediterranean on the resumption of war in 1803 after the short-lived Peace of Amiens.