NELSON, Horatio, Admiral (1758-1805). Two autograph letters signed (with the right hand, 'Horatio Nelson'), to Captain Maitland, La Minerve, Porto Ferrajo, 30 December 1796 , in the first being unable to recommend 'the best track' for Maitland's passage to Gibraltar but suggesting alternatives including the straits of Bonifacio 'but I by no means advise this passage in light airs as I believe the crossing may have privateers lurking near Corsica, one page, 4to ; in the second (signed in two places), asking him if he meets the Pallas to tell the Captain he is very anxious for them and in a postcript declaring himself 'pleased with your conduct for the very short time I have had the honor of knowing you', and wishing him a good passage and a better ship, 2 pages, 4to , signed recto and verso, address leaf (the correspondence mounted on paper, bound together, repaired with silk ribbon and tape, slightly discoloured). Nelson had sailed in the Minerve , a 38 gun frigate, from Gibraltar, arriving at Elba in Christmas Day, after an engagement with the Spanish in which Hardy was taken prisoner.
NELSON, Horatio, Admiral (1758-1805). Two autograph letters signed (with the right hand, 'Horatio Nelson'), to Captain Maitland, La Minerve, Porto Ferrajo, 30 December 1796 , in the first being unable to recommend 'the best track' for Maitland's passage to Gibraltar but suggesting alternatives including the straits of Bonifacio 'but I by no means advise this passage in light airs as I believe the crossing may have privateers lurking near Corsica, one page, 4to ; in the second (signed in two places), asking him if he meets the Pallas to tell the Captain he is very anxious for them and in a postcript declaring himself 'pleased with your conduct for the very short time I have had the honor of knowing you', and wishing him a good passage and a better ship, 2 pages, 4to , signed recto and verso, address leaf (the correspondence mounted on paper, bound together, repaired with silk ribbon and tape, slightly discoloured). Nelson had sailed in the Minerve , a 38 gun frigate, from Gibraltar, arriving at Elba in Christmas Day, after an engagement with the Spanish in which Hardy was taken prisoner.
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