Nelson′s Letters to Lady Hamilton and Related Documents: Navy Records Society Publications

Marianne Czisnik is a leading scholar and has published on a wide range of topics related to Horatio Nelson. She has a law degree and practiced in Germany before becoming a researcher of Nelson at the University of Edinburgh.

List of Illustrations ........................................................................age xi Acknowledgements .....................................................................xiii Preface...........................................................................................xv General Introduction .......................................................................1 A. Choice of Documents................................................................1 B. Editorial Procedures ..................................................................2 C. Conditions under Which the Letters Were Written .................13 D. Outer Appearance of Letters ...................................................17 Abbreviations and Short Titles Used in Citations .........................23 I: The Beginning of an Enduring Relationship, June 1978-December 1800........................................................... 25 II: The Baltic Campaign, January-June 1801 ..............................97 III: The Channel Campaign, July-October 1801 .......................245 IV: Settled, May 1802-August 1805..........................................337 V: The End, September-October 1805 ......................................507 Appendices..................................................................................533 1. Selected List of Previous Publications....................................535 2.Chronology of Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton ..................539 3.Items Mentioned in the Letters, Nelson's Wills and Codicils to His Wills ...................................................................557 4.Poetry Referred to in Nelson's Letters....................................563 5.Minute of a Conversation with the Prince Royal of Denmark on 3 April 1801 ...........................................................567 6.The Taking of the Swift Cutter: An Attempt to Trace the Documents Captured by l'Espérance in 1804 ......................573 7.Documentation of Flow of Letters in Chapter IV (1803-1805)581 Sources and Documents ..............................................................597 Index ...........................................................................................619