List of Illustrations
........................................................................age
xi Acknowledgements
.....................................................................xiii
Preface...........................................................................................xv
General Introduction
.......................................................................1 A.
Choice of
Documents................................................................1
B. Editorial Procedures
..................................................................2 C.
Conditions under Which the Letters Were Written .................13 D.
Outer Appearance of Letters
...................................................17 Abbreviations and
Short Titles Used in Citations .........................23 I: The Beginning
of an Enduring Relationship, June 1978-December
1800........................................................... 25 II: The
Baltic Campaign, January-June 1801 ..............................97 III:
The Channel Campaign, July-October 1801 .......................245 IV:
Settled, May 1802-August 1805..........................................337
V: The End, September-October 1805
......................................507
Appendices..................................................................................533
1. Selected List of Previous
Publications....................................535 2.Chronology of
Nelson's letters to Lady Hamilton ..................539 3.Items Mentioned
in the Letters, Nelson's Wills and Codicils to His Wills
...................................................................557
4.Poetry Referred to in Nelson's
Letters....................................563 5.Minute of a Conversation
with the Prince Royal of Denmark on 3 April 1801
...........................................................567 6.The Taking
of the Swift Cutter: An Attempt to Trace the Documents Captured by
l'Espérance in 1804 ......................573 7.Documentation of Flow of
Letters in Chapter IV (1803-1805)581 Sources and Documents
..............................................................597 Index
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