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3. Sir William to Camarthen, May 29, 1792, PRO FO 70/4, 101, September 22, 1792, and December 11, 1792, PRO FO 70/4, 136 and 155.
4. Emma to the Prince of Wales, n.d., Houghton Library, Joseph Husband Collection, letter 72.
5. Memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne, p. 66.
6. Even demure Catherine Hamilton had needed £400 worth of diamonds for one attendance. See BL Egerton MS 2634, f 409.
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1. Lady's Magazine, January 1792, p. 330.
2. Ibid., October 1792, p. 592.
3. The Times, May 3, 1793.
4. Brand to Ailesbury November 20, 1792, Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, 1300/3846.
5. Emma to Countess of Plymouth, n.d., Warwickshire Record Office, CR 1998/ SS/5/7.
6. Lady Spencer to Sir William, November 6, 1794, BL Althorp Papers, F111.
7. Letters of Lady Palmerston, in Portrait of a Whig Peer, ed. Connell, pp. 276-77,208-10.
8. Morritt, Letters and Journeys, p. 215.
9. Maria Carolina to Emma, BL Egerton MS 1615.
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1. The Sardinian man of war was essentially a false alarm and Nelson soon returned to cruising the Mediterranean.
2. Bon Ton Magazine, June 1794.
3. When a young sailor told him that he had been sent to sea at the age of eleven, Nelson remarked wistfully, “Much too young.”
4. Syphilis and gonorrhea, two of the most common diseases of the time, usually produced severe insanity in the months before death, and any doctor who recorded madness as a cause of death (and Nisbet's did so) implied that the patient had suffered a venereal disease.
5. John Rymer, A Description of the Island of Nevis (1775), p. 15.
6. Nelson decided Nisbet was “very rich” and rhapsodized that his “income is immense.”
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1. Sir William to Lord Grenville, November 12, 1793, PRO FO 70/6/277.
2. Gorani, Mémoires Sécrets (1793), I:23, 35, 60.
3. Thomas Brand to the Earl of Ailesbury, November 20, 1792, Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, 1300/3846.
4. Eighteenth-century revolutions needed leaders from the upper or genteel classes, and the doctors, lawyers, bankers, and intellectuals of Naples were disgruntled that the only way that any power could be gained was through accessing Ferdinand by hunting or attending balls, to which they were not invited because they were not noble.
5. Lady's Magazine, April 1796, 185.
6. Elizabeth, Lady Holland, Journal of Lady Holland, ed. Earl of Ilchester (London, 1909), I:243.
7. Morritt, Letters and Journeys, p. 215.
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1. Sir William to Lord Grenville, February 4, 1793, PRO FO 70/6/32.
2. Lady Palmerston, in Portrait of a Whig Peer, ed. Connell, p. 230.
3. Holland, Journal, I:242, 219.
4. Ackerman's Repository of the Arts 3 (1809): 171.
5. Lady's Magazine, May 1796, p. 265.
6. Ibid., April 1795, p. 181.
7. Ibid., January 1796, March 1796.
8. Sir William to Lord Grenville, April 19, 1793, PRO FO 70/7, 80.
9. Ibid., September 1, 1795, PRO FO 70/8, 348.
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1. St. Vincent to Emma, May 22, 1798, BL Add. MS 31, 166.
2. Emma to Nelson, n.d., BL Add. MS 34989, f. 3.
3. Nelson to Emma, BL Egerton MS 1614, f. 1.
4. The Lady's Monthly Museum, July 1799.
5. Emma to Nelson, September 8, 1798, BL Add. MS 34989, ff. 4–7.
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1. Malta was desirable thanks to its strategic importance in the Mediterranean, south of Sicily and east of North Africa, for Napoleon wanted it in order to pursue his aim to invade Egypt.
2. Nelson to Sir William, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 196.5, 14.
3. Sir William to Nelson, BL Add. MS 34907.
4. Cornelia Knight, Autobiography, ed. Sir J. W Kaye (London, 1861), II:55.
5. Fanny to Alexander Davison, April 11, 1799, NMM DAV/2/7.
6. Fanny to Josiah Nisbet, 1798, BL Add MS 34988, f 302.
7. See Fanny to Nelson, BL Add MS 34908, ff 601-2.
8. Emma to Nelson, October 26, 1798, BL Add. MS 34989.