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A LETTER FROM NELSON’S SOLICITOR REGARDING THE NEW EARL NELSON A LETTER FROM NELSON’S SOLICITOR REGARDING THE NEW EARL NELSON an autograph signed letter from William Haslewood to Frederick Booth, showing his pleasure that Lord [William] Nelson will be advanced to Earl Nelson by the desire of the King communicated to Mr Pitt, the title to be Earl of Trafalgar or, according to Pitt, Earl of Tresalgar, the King also to apply to Parliament ‘for an adequate provision to accompany the title’, but none of this to happen until after his brother’s funeral, a postscript recounting that the Prussians have doubled their troops to 130,000 men to take the field against the French and that the Duke of Brunswick ‘will leave the chief Command’, 4 pp., the last with endorsement and black seal, Fitzroy Square, Saturday night eleven o’clock [1805 or 1806] -- 9 x 7½in. (23 x 18.5cm.)