Napoleonic Wars Horatio Nelson 1804 (4 Aug.) left handed ALS

Napoleonic Wars
Horatio Nelson
1804 (4 Aug.) left handed ALS signed "Nelson & Bronte" from the 'Victory' to William Marsh expressing his exhaustion and explaining his personal sacrifices in his efforts to draw the French fleet into battle, clearly hoping for the renewal of the Peace of Amiens he begins his letter "I shall hopefully if I live see you soon, asses milk and a few months quiet may set me up again for another campaign". In Dispatches and Letters of Lord Nelson there are listed five different letters dated August 1804 in which Nelson expresses his need for asses' milk, in one dated 1804 (8 Aug) to his brother he writes "if the Admiralty do not allow me to get asses' milk and rest, you will be a Lord before I intend you should".

Another concern of Nelson's appears to be the prize money he long believed to be owed to him from engagements in the Mediterranean, writing "I would not claim if I did not believe that I have full as much right as many who have claimed for Toulon".

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