England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton (67 page)

^9.
In 1787, Maria Fitzherbert had been
Dido Forsaken,
and Gillray also recalls Joshua Reynolds's
The Death of Dido,
for which Emma probably modeled in her youth.

CHAPTER 40

^1.
Nelson to Emma, January 29, 1801, BL Egerton MS 1614, f. 16.

^2.
Ibid., February 20, 1801, Huntington Library, HM 34044.

^3.
Foster,
Dearest Bess,
p. 166.

CHAPTER 41

^1.
Nelson to Emma, March 2, 1801, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 196.5, 22.

^2.
Ibid., March 1, 1801. See Christie's catalog,
The Age of Nelson,
p. 40.

^3.
Fanny to Alexander Davison, February 20, 1801, NMM DAV/50.

^4.
Beckford to Emma, November 24, 1800, Bodleian Library, Beckford MS c. 4, f. 55.

^5.
Emma to Mrs. Gibson, February 11, 1801, NMM NWD/9594/9.

^6.
Abraham Gibbs to Sir William, July 13, 1802, BM Add. MS, ff. 221-22.

^7.
Morning Herald,
April 12, 1801.

^8.
Nelson to Emma, March 1, 1801, Houghton Library, FMS Lowell, 10.

^9.
Ibid., March 17, 1801, NMM MON/1/19.

^10.
Sir Nathaniel Wraxall,
Historical Memoirs of My Own Time
(London, 1904), p. 141.

^11.
Nelson to Emma, April 25, 1801, BL Egerton MS, f. 46.

CHAPTER 42

^1.
Nelson to Emma, June 8, 1801, BL Egerton MS 1614, f. 63.

^2.
The Times,
August 4, 1801.

^3.
Nelson to William Haslewood, August 27, 1801, Monmouth Museum, E96 and E98.

^4.
Ibid., September 4, 1801, Monmouth Museum, E100.

^5.
Nelson to Emma, October 2, 1801, Houghton Library, FMS Lowell, 10.

^6.
The paintings probably included the Schmidt pastel, a Romney portrait, and also Vigée-Lebrun's
Bacchante.

^7.
See Houghton Library, MS Eng. 196.5, 25.

^8.
Thomas Bennett to Nelson, August 30, 1805, Monmouth Museum, E401.

^9.
Minto, ed.,
Life and Letters,
III:242.

^10.
Samuel Ragland to Sir William, April 6, 1802, BL Add. MS 41200, f. 214.

^11.
Beinecke Library, General MS, 4:12, ALS 3, Sarah Nelson to Emma, October 1801.

^12.
Ibid., ALS 4 and 5, Sarah Nelson to Emma, October 1801.

^13.
Sarah Nelson to Charlotte Nelson, October 1802, NMM BRP/1.

^14.
Fanny to Nelson, December 18, 1801, Monmouth Museum, E979.

^15.
Emma to Mrs. Gibson, December 14, 1801, NMM NWD/9594/9.

^16.
“Favourite Sultana,” Monmouth Museum, E206.

CHAPTER 43

^1.
Emma to Captain Bedford, February 13, 1802, BM Add. MS 34902, f. 6.

^2.
Merton Church registers, April 1802.

^3.
Morning Post,
August 25, 1802.

^4.
Coventry Mercury,
September 6, 1802.

^5.
Emma to Kitty Matcham, 1802, NMM MAM/23.

^6.
Morning Post,
August 31, 1802.

^7.
Lady's Magazine,
January 1803, p. 44.

CHAPTER 44

^1.
Morning Herald,
September 14, 1802.

^2.
Emma to Mrs. Gibson, September 1802, NMM NWD/9594/1, 9.

^3.
Emma to Sir William with his response and sentences by her, 1803, MS Eng 196.5, 64.

^4.
Morning Herald,
October 19, 1802.

^5.
Merton accounts, October 4-11, 1802, Houghton Library, MS Eng 196.5, 27.

^6.
Oracle and Daily Advertiser,
March 18, 1802.

^7.
Emma to Kitty Matcham, December 23, 1802, NMM MAM/23.

^8.
Mary Eyre Matcham,
The Nelsons of Burnham Thorpe
(London, 1911), p. 204.

^9.
Morning Post,
January 31, 1803.

^10.
Emma to John Parrott, May 14, 1803, private collection.

^11.
Morning Herald,
April 19, 1803.

^12.
Mrs. Gibson to Emma, “Copy of Horatia's Baptism,” May 13, 1803, NMM NWD/9594/9.

^13.
Friday, May 13, 1803, St. Marylebone Church registers, London Metropolitan Archives.

^14.
See Sarah Nelson to Emma, Monmouth Museum, E538.

CHAPTER 45

^1.
Vigée-Lebrun,
Memoirs,
p. 154.

^2.
See Christie's Catalogue,
Nelson, Napoleon, and their Time: The Calvin Bullock Collection,
(London, 1985), p. 189.

^3.
Morning Post,
December 21, 1803.

^4.
Nelson to Emma, December 7, 1803, NMM MAM/28.

^5.
Nelson to Horatia, January 13, 1804, NMM NWD/9594/16.

^6.
Nelson to Emma, January 13, 1804, NMM NWD/9594/16.

^7.
Emma to Davison, October 1804, private collection, citation taken from Martyn Downer,
Nelson's Purse
(London, 2005), p. 276.

CHAPTER 46

^1.
Nelson to Emma, March 16, 1805, NMM TRA/13.

^2.
See Gillray's
Dilettante Theatricals
(1803) and also
The Pic-Nic Orchestra
(1802) and
Blowing up the Pic-Nics
(1802)
.

^3.
John Corry,
A Satirical View of London
(London, 1801), pp. 71-74.

^4.
Nelson to Emma, August 26, 1803, NMM Phillips, 34. See also Nelson to Emma, October 5, 1804, BL Egerton MS 1614, f. 108.

^5.
Elizabeth Stanhope to Dr. Vaughan, Ramsgate, August 17, 1804, Leicester Record Office.

^6.
See NMM BRP/9292/1.

^7.
Sarah Nelson to Emma, September 11, 1804, Beinecke Library General MS, 4:12, ALS, 8.

^8.
Ibid., February 27, 1805, Beinecke Library General MS, 4:12, ALS, 13.

^9.
Ibid., c. 1803, Beinecke Library General MS, 4:12, ALS, 14. Watch is in NMM BRP 9292/4.

^10.
Ibid., November 6, 1804, Beinecke Library General MS, 4:12, ALS, 11.

^11.
Nelson to Emma, September 9, 1805, BL Egerton MS 1614, f 106.

^12.
Ibid., September 10, 1805, Monmouth Museum, E400.

^13.
Ibid., May 16, 1805, NMM TRA/9421.

^14.
Nelson to Haslewood, May 16, 1805, NMM TRA/9421.

^15.
Morning Post,
August 21, 1805 (report filed on August 19).

^16.
William Marsden, secretary to the Admiralty, had sent an express to Merton. See NMM CRK 9/5.

CHAPTER 47

^1.
Minto to Lady Minto, August 26, 1805, Minto, ed.,
Life and Letters,
III:363.

^2.
Emma to Mrs. Lutwidge, September 3, 1805, NMM PST/39.

^3.
Susanna Bolton to Emma, 1805, NMM NWD/9594/7.

^4.
J. A. Andersen (pseud. for A. Feldborg),
A Dane's Excursions in Britain
(London, 1809), II:94-95.

^5.
Diary of Frances, Lady Shelley,
ed. Richard Edgcumbe (London, 1912), I:79.

^6.
Emma to Mrs. Lutwidge, September 3, 1805, NMM PST/39.

^7.
Nelson to Emma, April 4, 1805, Monmouth Museum, E445.

CHAPTER 48

^1.
Cecilia Connor to Charlotte Nelson, October 4, 1805, NMM NWD/9594.

^2.
Emma to Nelson, October 4, 1805, NMM NWD/9594.

^3.
Ibid., October 8, 1805, NMM NWD/9594.

^4.
Nelson, October 21, 1805, NMM JOD/14.