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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Lady Hamilton and Horatia The papers of my great-grandfather, Sir Harris Nicolas, have recently come into my possession, and the letters addressed to him by Nelson's daughter, Horatia, while he was bringing out his edition of Nelson's despatches, which have slumbered in an old trunk for upwards of sixty years, still possess a certain interest. They can hardly be said to contribute new facts, except for showing that Mr. Matcham, her uncle by marriage, fetched Horatia from Calais after Lady Hamilton's death, and not the 2nd Earl Nelson and Mr. Henry Cadogan, as is commonly related, but they undoubtedly shed some light on Lady Hamilton's character, and Horatia's recollections of her early life with Lady Hamilton after Nelson's death cannot be called dull. Sir Harris first met Horatia, who was born on the 2gth January, 1801, and in 1822 married the Rev. Philip Ward, in 1844, and their correspondence lasted till 1846 and chiefly consisted of an examination of the various fictions employed by Nelson and Lady Hamilton to conceal the parentage of Horatia. Both Sir Harris and Mrs. Ward died in ignorance of the real facts, and in his last volume of the despatches Sir Harris even conjectures that the relations of Nelson and Lady Hamilton were Platonic, although his opinion on that one point must subsequently have changed and was never more than merely conjectural. But Sir Harris did not long survive the completion of his Nelson volumes. Worn out by a succession of misfortunes and disappointments, he sank under them, like Sir Walter Scott, and died at Boulogne in 1848, engaged on fresh work to the last. He was in his last days, editing the papers of Sir Hudson Lowe, and had even jotted down some notes for a history of Boulogne. His comparatively short career (for he died just under...
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