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A LETTER FROM ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF NELSON'S DEATH, 1805 A LETTER FROM ADMIRAL LORD COLLINGWOOD GIVING AN ACCOUNT OF NELSON'S DEATH, 1805 an autograph letter from Admiral Lord Collingwood signed to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Duckworth, G.C.B., recounting the Battle of Trafalgar and in detail the death of Lord Nelson ‘with so noble a fleet – such excellent men in almost all the ships we could do no other than beat them – The fruits of our Victory was blasted by the gale which immediately succeeded…As it is we have every reason to be thankful – and I hope the Country will think it has been served – The Death of my friend Lord Nelson has been a severe affliction to me – I had known him too long not to have a sincere affection for him – but if he had chosen the manner of his death I believe he would have died as he did, after he received his wound (which he knew to be mortal in the instant he was struck) he lived long enough to show that his duty was predominant in his mind even in his last moments….’, Collingwood continues by informing that some of the wounded and the ‘crippled ships’ have returned to England, that other ships should be sent to Italy ‘if the War proceeds, there and the Russians land in the Kingdom of Naples' he is going to Carthagena where he can keep an eye on the blockade of Toulon, Genoa and all the posts…., 4pp. (the last blank save for endorsement and ‘I beg my kind regards to Capt. Keats who I hope is very well’, written aboard H.M.S. Queen off Gibraltar, November 19, 1805 -- 11½ x 8½in. (29.5 x 20.5cm.)