Nelson
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46. Nelson to Jervis, 16/8/1797, Add. MSS 34902.
XXVII Useless to my Country (pp. 778–88)
1. Logs of the Seahorse, ADM 51/1190, ADM 52/3416; Elliot to his wife, 27/6/1797, NLS, 11051: 73; De Burgh to Elliot, 21/5/1797, NMM: ELL/148.
2. Medical journal of the Seahorse, ADM 101/120/6; Elliot to his wife, 3/10/1797, NLS. 11051: 122; Anne Fremantle, ed., The Wynne Diaries (1935–40), 2, pp. 188–9; Jervis to Nelson, 23/10/1797, Add. MSS 34939.
3. Jervis to Nelson, 16/8/1797, Add. MSS 34939.
4. Jervis to Nepean, 16/8/1797, ADM 1/396; the Seahorse muster, ADM 36/13125; G. L. Newnham Collingwood, ed., Correspondence, 1, p. 61. Other officers of the Seahorse included Lieutenants Archibald Dickson and Edward Galway and the master, Michael Spratt. An interesting name on the muster was that of a twenty-seven-year-old Londoner John Spurling, master’s mate. He would distinguish himself as a master of the Imperieuse under Lord Cochrane in 1806–9.
5. Jervis to Nisbet, 16/8/1797, ADM 1/2226; Add. MSS 31176: 228; Nelson to Hoste, September 1797, D&L, 2, p. 442; Harriet Hoste, ed., Hoste, 1, p. 86.
6. Nelson to Fanny, 5/8/1797, NLTHW, p. 332.
7. Grenville to Fremantle, 1/9/1797, and Betsy to William Fremantle, 2, 6/9/1797, CBS, D-FR/45/2; Ramsay to Nelson, 26/11/1802, NMM: CRK/10.
8. Weatherhead to Nelson, 26/10/1797, Add. MSS 34906; Nelson to Weatherhead, 31/10/1797, 27/1/1798, D&L, 2, p. 451, and Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth.
9. The literature of this engagement is discussed in Pedro Ontorio Oquillas, Luis Cola Benitez and Daniel Garcia Pulido, eds, Fuentes Documentales, pt vi.
10. George III to Spencer, 2/9/1797, A. Aspinall, ed., Later Correspondence, 2, p. 619.
11. Add. MSS 29232: 314.
12. David White, ‘Heralds and Their Clients’.
13. Nelson to his father, 1/1/1797, Monmouth MSS, E599; Nelson to Suckling, 30/8/1797, Monmouth MSS, E43.
14. Some insight into Jervis’s ideas is given by his signal book, 31/1/1796, NMM: CRK/14.
15. Collingwood to Edward Collingwood, 23/1/1795, Add. MSS 52780.
16. Nelson to Fanny, 2/8/1796, Add. MSS 34988.
17. Nelson to his father, 1/1/1797, Monmouth MSS, E599.
18. Nelson to Charles Long, 7/8/1793, Add. MSS 34902.
19. NLTHW, p. 465.
20. Russell Grenfell, Nelson the Sailor, p. 213.
ABBREVIATIONS
Published sources are cited by short titles that key to the select bibliography. Abbreviations commonly used are as follows:
Add. MSS
Additional Manuscripts at the British Library
ADM
Admiralty papers, Public Record Office
BL
British Library, London
CBS
Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, Aylesbury
CO
Colonial Office papers, PRO
D&L
Nicolas, ed., Dispatches and Letters . . . of Nelson
DNB
Dictionary of National Biography
FO
Foreign Office papers, PRO
HCA
High Court of Admiralty papers, PRO
MM
Mariner’s Mirror (Journal of the Society of Nautical
Research)
Monmouth MSS
Manuscripts at the Nelson Museum, Monmouth
NC
Clarke and McArthur, eds, The Naval Chronicle
ND
Nelson Dispatch (Journal of the Nelson Society)
NLS
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
NMM
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
NLTHW
Naish, ed., Nelson’s Letters to his Wife
PRO
Public Record Office, Kew
SRRC
Shropshire Records and Research Centre, Shrewsbury
TC
Trafalgar Chronicle (Yearbook of the 1805 Club)
WO
War Office papers, PRO
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
A: Manuscripts
Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, Aylesbury
Fremantle papers (D-FR/32/2/3; D-FR/41/6; D-FR/45/2)
Berwick-upon-Tweed Record Office
Parish registers of Berwick-upon-Tweed and Belford
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Copies of Collingwood papers (NLS 1811)
Lynedoch papers (NLS 3596)
Minto papers (NLS 9819, 11049–51, 11072, 11083, 11111, 11139, 11193, 11209–14, 11221)
Norfolk Nelson Museum, Great Yarmouth
Ben Burgess Collection
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Admiralty Correspondence (ADM/C)
Admiralty Lieutenants’ Logs (ADM/L) A51, A72, B5, B97, B136, B175A, C51, C246, D93, E159, H113, J121, L220, M292, P406, S222–4, T87A, T268, W180
Administration and Law papers (ADL)
Agamemnon interviews (BGY/W/3)
Autograph Collections (AGC)
Autograph Collections/Nelson (AGC/N)
Bridport papers (BRP)
Thomas Buttersworth paintings
George Cockburn papers (MRF/D)
Cuthbert Collingwood papers (COL)
William Cornwallis papers (COR)
Lewis Stephen Davis narrative (HIS/35)
Alexander Davison Collection
Gilbert Elliot papers (ELL)
Facsimiles (FAC)
Thomas Foley papers (FOL)
Girdlestone papers (GIR)
William Hamilton papers (HML)
Samuel Hood papers (MKH)
Viscount Hood papers (HOO)
William Hoste papers (MRF/88)
John Jervis papers (JER)
Marine Society papers (MSY)
Matcham papers (MAM)
Monserrat collection (MON)
George Mundy diary (85/015)
Nelson accounts (75/102)
Nelson letters to Clarence (AGC/27)
Nelson–Ward papers (NWD)
Phillipps–Croker collection (RCL, PHB and CRK)
Photographs (PGR)
Photostats (PST)
Charles Pole papers (WYN)
Sandwich papers (SAN)
Ship draught plans
Stewart collection (STW)
Sutcliffe-Smith collection (SUT)
Trafalgar House collection (TRA)
Transcripts (TRN)
Walter collection (WAL)
Xerox autograph collections [Spiro collection of Nelson letters] (XAGC)
Public Record Office, Kew
ADM [Admiralty] 1/164 (East Indies)
ADM 1/240–2 (Jamaica)
ADM 1/312–13, 315 (Leeward Islands)
ADM 1/391–6 (Mediterranean)
ADM 1/490 (North America)
ADM 1/579 (admirals’ in-letters)
ADM 1/655, 665 (Downs)
ADM 1/723 (Nore)
ADM 1/952–3, 998 (Portsmouth)
ADM 1/1451–3, 1613, 1616, 1620, 1622–3, 1709–10, 1789, 1791, 1908, 1911–12, 1998, 2053–4, 2123–34, 2222–6, 2303, 2307, 2389–90, 2481–2, 2486, 2490, 2676 (captains’ in-letters)
ADM 1/2739 (lieutenants’ in-letters)
ADM 1/3820 (plantations)
ADM 1/3841–2 (consul’s intelligence)
ADM 1/3682–3 (solicitors’ opinions)
ADM 1/5306–8, 5310, 5315, 5324–6, 5330–41 (courts martial)
ADM 2/102, 111–17 (Admiralty orders and instructions)
ADM 2/1062 (legal correspondence)
ADM 2/1342 (secret out-letters)
ADM 6/89, 90, 93–4, 98, 107 (lieutenants’ passing certificates)
ADM 7/301 (law officers’ opinions)
ADM 9/1–2, 6 (returns of service)
ADM 12 (digests of correspondence)
ADM 33/509, 635, 676, 696 (pay books)
ADM 34/67, 116, 137, 463, 467, 749, 835–6 (pay books)
ADM 35/69, 242, 401, 492, 843, 1103, 1657, 1856 (pay bo
oks)
ADM 36/5402–3, 7523, 7567, 7583, 7669, 7688–90, 8117–18, 8677, 8720, 9203, 9390, 9510–11, 9882–3, 10047, 10081–2, 10381, 10525, 11358–62, 11539, 11775, 11799, 11823, 12648, 13125, 13135, 14801, 19525 (musters)
ADM 50/9, 11, 79, 100, 117, 125 (admirals’ journals)
ADM 51/21, 78, 120, 125, 137, 167, 224, 238, 259, 442, 476, 513, 535, 540, 557, 589, 597, 637, 668, 757, 763, 777, 836, 973, 1015, 1085, 1103–5, 1107–8, 1111, 1113, 1116, 1119, 1121, 1123–5, 1128, 1130–1, 1133, 1137, 1140, 1143, 1150–2, 1155, 1163–6, 1167–9, 1172–4, 1179, 1180–1, 1186–7, 1189, 1190–1, 1194, 1197, 1199, 1201–2, 1204–5, 1209–10, 1212, 1223, 1243, 1267, 1369, 4110, 4247, 4470, 4475, 4492, 4507 (captains’ logs)
ADM 52/1416, 1591, 1639, 1701, 1847, 1991, 2002, 2054, 2095, 2136, 2179, 2359, 2632, 2707, 2710, 2825, 2926, 2993, 3104, 3128, 3223, 3236, 3240, 3509 (masters’ logs)
ADM 55/12 (Lutwidge journal)
ADM 95/30 (24), 37 (15), 38 (148), 39 (80, 116), 41 (110) (ship sailing qualities)
ADM 101/120/6 (medical journal of the Seahorse)
ADM 101/123/2 (medical journal of the Theseus)
ADM 106/1290, 1392, 1653 (Navy Board in-letters)
ADM 106/2624–35 (Navy Board minutes)
ADM 107/3, 6–13, 15–18, 21, 25, 41 (lieutenants’ passing certificates)
ADM 140/1173 (map of English Harbour)
CO [Colonial Office] 7/1 (Antigua)
CO 28/60–1 (Barbados)
CO 31/43 (Barbados council and assembly)
CO 116/1 (newspaper of 21/3/1836)
CO 137/75–82 (Jamaica)
CO 152/63–71 (Leeward Islands)
CO 184 (Nevis)
CO 241/18 (St Kitts sessional papers)
FO [Foreign Office] 7/42–7 (Vienna)
FO 20/1–12 (Corsica)
FO 28/6–17 (Genoa)
FO 67/17–23 (Sardinia)
FO 70/6–10 (Naples)
FO 72/44–5 (Spain)
FO 79/8–15 (Tuscany)
FO 90/1 (America)
HCA [High Court of Admiralty] 1/25/138–412 (oyer and terminer indictments)
HCA 1/61 (oyer and terminer minutes)
HCA 32/550, 845 (prize courts)
HO [Home Office] 28/14–15 (Hood)
HO 50/456 (military dispatches)
IR 1/28 (Internal Revenue)
MPI 1/95 (Nelson’s map of St John, Virgin Islands)
Pitcairn-Jones, C. G. ‘Sea Officers List’
PROB (Probate) 11/936, 1031, 1044, 1111, 1136, 1140, 1183, 1518, 1559, 1893, 2026 (wills)
WO [War Office] 1/288 (Gibraltar)
WO 1/302 (Corsica)
WO 1/683 (America and the West Indies)
WO 1/686 (Admiralty)
British Library, London
Add. MSS 14272–80, 52780 (Collingwood papers)
Add. MSS 20080, 21506, 22130, 70948 (miscellaneous autographs)
Add. MSS 20107 (Hudson Lowe papers)
Add. MSS 21800 (Frederick Haldimand papers)
Add. MSS 22688 (Pasquale de Paoli papers)
Add. MSS 28333, 34902–92, 36604–13, 46356 (Knightley) (Nelson papers)
Add, MSS 29232 (Miscellaneous personal papers)
Add. MSS 29893 (George Manby recollections)
Add. MSS 31158–93 (St Vincent papers)
Add. MSS 35191–202 (Bridport papers)
Add. MSS 37845, 37852, 37877 (William Windham papers)
Add. MSS 38308 (Liverpool papers)
Add. MSS 39793 (William Hamilton papers)
Add. MSS 46119 (Thomas Boulden Thompson papers)
Add. MSS 46822–38 (Francis Drake papers)
Add. MSS 57320, 57325 (John Moore papers)
Add. MSS 56486, 57946 (forgeries)
Add. MSS 75777–814 (Althorp papers)
King’s MSS 224 (Phipps journal)
Egerton MSS 1614–23 (Hamilton/Nelson papers)
Egerton MSS 2240–1 (Nelson papers)
Egerton MSS 2638–9 (William Hamilton papers)
A. M. Broadley Collection, ‘Nelsoniana,’ 8 vols (Printed Books C.136.e.1)
John to Ann Brock, 1793 (Printed Books C.45.h.5)
British Museum, London
Sketches and annotations of Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1797.
Goldsmiths’ Company, London
Apprentice Books
Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London
Parish registers, St Luke’s Old Street; St Leonard’s, Shoreditch
London trade directories
Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London
Western MSS 3667–81, 7362 (Nelson papers)
Westminster Archives Centre, London
Poor rates, F 582, F584
John Rylands Library, Manchester
Nelson facsimile (MAM PLP78.52.1)
Nelson Museum, Monmouth
Nelson Manuscripts (E series)
Nelson artefacts, illustrations and memorabilia
E. C. Bodger files
Norfolk Heritage Centre, Norwich
Census records for Burnham Thorpe and Brancaster, Norfolk
Norfolk Record Office, Norwich
Parish registers of Burnham Thorpe, North Walsham, North Elmham, Burton Norton
Land tax records, 1796–7
Faculty book (diocesan records), DN/FCB/1
Recognisances and index of licencees (MF/RO/610/3)
Hilborough papers
Rolfe papers
Bulwer papers (MF/RO/334/1 and 3)
Gawdy photocopies (FX 254)
‘Nelsoniana’ photocopies
Paston school papers (MC 20/27)
‘A Particular Survey and Valuation of the Manors of Burnham Lexham and Burnham Polstead Hall, and of Several Other Estates’ (post 1803)
City Museums and Record Service, Portsmouth
Madden papers
Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth
Hercules Ross papers
Lily L. McCarthy collection
Miscellaneous Nelson papers
Shropshire Records and Research Centre, Shrewsbury
Papers of William Hill, Baron Berwick, Attingham Collection, 112/16/31 (Brame Letter book) and 112/16/33 (Brame papers)
General Register Office, Southport
Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths
William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Nelson papers
Stephen Kemble papers
D’Auvergne: charts and views from Arctic expedition, 1773
George Germain papers
Earl of Shelburne papers, vol. 79.
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Joseph Husband Collection of Nelson and Hamilton papers
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Benjamin Hallowell Carew papers
The Morgan Library, New York City
Miscellaneous Nelson papers
New York Historical Society, New York City
Miscellaneous Nelson papers.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Nelson papers
Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia
John McArthur papers
John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Napoleon collection
Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Nelson papers
Archives Nationales du Quebec
James Thompson papers
Registers of the Anglican Cathedral, Quebec
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Brown collection
Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, Paris
AA/15, dossier 751, 754
Comité de Salut Public (AF/II/94, dossier 693; AF/II/182–5; AF/II/252, dossier 2140–1)
B: Published Sources
(Works are published in London unless otherwise stated)
ABRAHAMS, ALECK, and ARDAGH, JOHN, The Life an
d Works of William Robinson (1925)
ACCARDI, VITTORIO, ed., The Hamilton Papers (Napoli, 1999)
ACTON, HAROLD, The Bourbons of Naples (1956)
ALBION, ROBERT G., Forests and Sea Power: The Timber Problem of the Royal Navy, 1652–1862 (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1926)
ALLEN, JOSEPH, ‘England’s Wooden Walls’, United Service Magazine (1839), pt iii, pp. 346–51
—Life of Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., Duke of Bronte (1853)
‘Anecdotes of the Late Lieutenant-General Villettes’, Gentleman’s Magazine, 79 (1809), I, pp. 297–301, and II, pp. 798–9
Annual Register
ARTHUR, CHARLES B., The Remaking of the English Navy by Admiral St Vincent – Key to the Victory over Napoleon (Lanham, Maryland,1986)
ASPINALL, A., ed., The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770–1812 (1963–71, 8 vols)
—ed., The Later Correspondence of George III (Cambridge, 1966–70, 5 vols)
ASPINALL-OGLANDER, CECIL, ed., Freshly Remembered: The Story of Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch (1956)
BALLEINE, G. R., The Tragedy of Philippe d’Auvergne (1973)
BARING, Mrs HENRY, ed., The Diary of the Rt Hon. William Windham (1866)
BARKER, JULIET, Wordsworth: A Life (2000)
BARKER, MATTHEW H. (‘The Old Sailor’), The Life of Nelson (1836)
BARRAS, T. C. ‘Vice-Admiral Nelson’s Lost Eye’, Transactions of the Ophthalomological Society of the United Kingdom (1986), pp. 351–5
—‘I Have a Right to be Blind Sometimes’, ND, 2 (1987), pp. 163–8
BARROW, JOHN, An Auto-Biographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow, Bart. (1847)
Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette
Bath Journal
‘The Battle of Cape St Vincent’, Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, 59 (1914), pp. 321–41
BAUGH, DANIEL A., British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole (Princeton, New Jersey, 1965)
BEATSON, ROBERT, Naval and Military Memoirs of Great Britain (1804, 6 vols)
BENNETT, GEOFFREY, Nelson the Commander (1972)
BERCKMAN, EVELYN, Nelson’s Dear Lord: A Portrait of the Earl of St Vincent (1962)
BERESFORD, CHARLES, LORD, and WILSON, H. W., Nelson and His Times (1897)
‘Biographical Memoir of the Right Honourable Lord Nelson of the Nile, K.B.’, NC, 3 (1800), pp. 157–91
‘Biographical Memoir of Philip d’Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon’, NC, 13 (1805), pp. 169–91