England's Mistress_ The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton - Kate Williams [213]
4. Emma, October 7, 1814, NMM NWD/9594/34.
5. Horatia Nelson to Mr. Paget, November 8, 1874, NMM NWD/9594/2.
6. Horatia Nelson to Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, March 28, 1846, NMM NWD/ 9594/13-24.
CHAPTER 57
1. Morning Post, January 26, 1815.
2. Just after Nelson's column was erected in Trafalgar Square in 1845, William Thackeray published Vanity Fair, in which Becky Sharp, a second Emma, comes to a sticky end. Becky, a dancer and artist's model, flirts with the Prince of Wales, exploits her connections to aristocratic men, and distracts soldiers from their duty. She even performs Attitudes at parties, playing the role of Clytemnestra, armed with a dagger to stab Aegisthus, dressed in white as “her tawny hair floats down her shoulder.” Thackeray's Lady Crawley raved to Becky on “the most beautiful part of dear Lord Nelson's character,” extolling how he “went to the deuce for a woman. There must be good in a man who will do that.” But Lady Crawley is out of touch—the society she lives in reviles any man for “going to the deuce” for a woman. Thackeray's world had no place for a strong-minded woman who refused to accept her place at the bottom of society.
3. Robert Fulke Greville, The Greville Memoirs, eds. Lytton Strachey and Roger Fulford (London, 1938), III:160.
4. Harriet Arbuthnot, Journal of Mrs. Arbuthnot, 1820-1832, eds. Francis Bamford and the Duke of Wellington (London, 1950), I:65.
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
In the course of my four years of research, I have consulted over three thousand books. To list all would be too cumbersome for the reader, and it wouldn't help those readers who are looking for more information about certain topics. Therefore, in the following pages, I list only those sources that I have found most useful and enjoyable.
Newspapers and Magazines
La Belle Assemblée
Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine
Bon Ton Magazine
The Carlton House Magazine
Coventry Mercury
Covent Garden Journal
European Magazine
Gentleman's Magazine
Lady's Magazine
Morning Chronicle
Morning Herald
Morning Post
The Morning Post and Gazeteer
The Naval Chronicle
Oracle and Daily Advertiser
The Sun
The Times
Town and Country Magazine
Manuscript Sources
I have been fortunate enough to find many previously unused manuscripts, including eight hundred unpublished letters in the Monmouth archives, many in the over 150 volumes in the British Library, and volumes in the National Maritime Museum. I also found hundreds of manuscripts in collections in the United States, many in the Well-come Library, in archives across the country, and in private collections all over the world.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Osborn MS, William Hayley to Emma Hamilton and Sarah Nelson to Emma Emma Hamilton's songbooks
Bodleian Library
Beckford MS
Hamilton Notebooks (MS Eng. hist g. 3-16)
British Library
Egerton:
1617-1620, Queen of Naples to Lady Hamilton
1614-23, Hamilton-Nelson papers
2240-41, will and dying request
2634-37, Hamilton's Letters to Secretaries of State, 1764-1781
2641, Letters to Sir William Hamilton
Additional:
38361, Works at Milford
40714—15, Hamilton-Greville Papers
41197-41200, Sir William's Correspondence and Papers, 1761-1803
42069-71, Sir William's Correspondence and Papers, 1764—1803
59031, Sir William and from Lord Grenville, 1796-1802
31166, St. Vincent Papers
34902-34992, Nelson Papers, in particular:
34933-36, Official Correspondence 1781-1799
34938-40, St. Vincent to Nelson,
34966-68, Private Journals, 1803-1805
34988, Nelson Family Correspondence 35194, Bridport Papers,
3782, John Scott to Lady Hamilton and Mrs Cadogan 34724, Miscellaneous letters 44584, ff 31, 32, Nelson to Horatia 34989, ff 1, 3, 4, 12-32, et al., Nelson to Emma 34988, ff 123-376, Letters to and from his wife Althorp Papers Foster MS, Add MS 4159, Journal of Lady Elizabeth Foster
Coutts Archives
Queensberry Papers
Flintshire Record Office
Hawarden Papers, John Glynne Papers
Hampshire Record Office
Melesina Trench to Richard