December 3, 2003

£117,000 for Lord Nelson love letter

A passionate letter from Lord Nelson to Lady Emma Hamilton in which he confesses to having had an erotic dream about her fetched more than £117,000 at an auction at Christie's in London yesterday.

Nelson wrote the uninhibited letter in 1800 while sailing from north-west Italy to Sicily where he had been summoned to a meeting with Lord Keith, commander of the British fleet in the Mediterranean.

Read the rest in The Telegraph. Another writeup here.

Posted by David on December 3, 2003 10:05 PM

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