A highly important group of previously unknown letters, containing much new information on the lives and behaviour of Nelson, Fanny Nelson and Emma Hamilton. They will completely alter the accepted view of Nelsons wife as cold and unfeeling as they reveal how distraught she became at the time of the separation
Item Provenance
Given to Nelsons prize agent Alexander Davison, sold by his family Sothebys October 2002, lot 85