Nov. 17. 1849.] 
I beg the favour of your transmitting to me 
by the first safe opportunity such of my dear 
brother’s papers (not of a public nature) as are 
under your care, and of making for me (with my 
sincere regards and kind compliments) to Captain 
Hardy the like request. 
Please to let me hear from you the moment 
you arrive at Portsmouth, and direct to me as 
above, when I will send you any further directions 
I may have received from ministers. 
18. Charles Street, Berkeley Square, 
Dee. 6. 1805. 
My dear Sir,—I have this moment received 
your kind letter. Ido not know I can add any 
thing to my former letter to you, or to what I 
have written to Captain Hardy. I will speak fully 
to Mr. Chevalier* before he leaves me. 
Your faithful and obliged humble servant, 
Netson. 
It will be of great importance that I am in 
possession of his last will and codicils as soon as 
possible—no one can say that it does not contain, 
among other things, many directions relative to 
his funeral. 
18. Charles Street, Berkeley Square, 
Dec. 13. 1805. 
Dear Sir, —I have been to the Admiralty, and 
I am assured that leave will be sent to you to quit 
the ship, and follow the remains of my dear bro- 
ther when you please. We have determined to 
send Mr. Tyson with the coffin to the Victory, 
when we know she is at the Nore. He, together 
with Captain Hardy and yourself, will see the body 
safely deposited therein. I trust to the affection 
of all for that. ‘The Admiralty will order the 
Commissioners’ yacht at Sheerness to receive it, 
and bring it to Greenwich. I suppose an order 
from the Admiralty will go to Captain Hardy to 
deliver the body to Mr.'Tyson, and you will of 
course attend. But if’ this should be omitted by 
any mistake of office, I trust Captain Hardy will 
have no difficulty. 
There is no hurry in it, as the funeral will not 
be till the 10th or 12th of January. 
We do not wisfi to send Tyson till we have the 
will and codicil, which Captain Hardy informed 
me was to come by Captain Blackwood from 
‘Portsmouth on Tuesday last. We are surprised 
he is not here. Compts. to Captain Hardy. 
Write to me as soon as you get to the Nore, or 
before, if you can. 
Believe me, yours faithfully, 
NELson. 
Excuse this hasty and blotted scrawl, as I have 
been detained so long at the Admiralty that I 
have scarce time to save the Post. 
* Lord Nelson’s steward in the Victory. 
NOTES AND QUERIES. 
37 
Canterbury, 
Dec. 26. 1805. 
Dear Sir,—I received your letters of the 23rd 
and 25th this morning. Jam glad to hear the re- 
mains of my late dear and most illustrious brother 
are at length removed to Mr. Peddieson’s coffin, 
and safely deposited in Greenwich Hospital. Your 
kind and affeetionate attention throughout the 
whole of this mournful and trying scene cannot 
fail to meet my sincere and most grateful thanks, 
and that of the whole family. I am_ perfectly 
satisfied from the surgeon’s reports which have 
been sent to me, that every thing proper has been 
done. I could wish to have known what has been 
done with the bowels—whether they were thrown 
overboard, or whether they were preserved to be 
put into the coflin with the body. The features 
being now lost, the face cannot, as Mr. Beatty 
very properly observes, be exposed : I hope, there- 
fore, every thing is closed and soldered down. 
I wrote to Mr. Tyson a few days ago, and 
should be glad to hear from him. I mean to go 
towards London about the Ist, 2nd, or 3rd of 
Jan. (the day not yet fixed), and call at Green- 
wich fora moment, just to have a melancholy sight 
of the coffin, &c. &e., when I hope I shall see you. 
I shall be glad to hear from you as often as you 
have any thing new to communicate, and how the 
preparations go on. Every thing now is in the 
hands of government, but, strange to tell, I have 
not yet heard from the Herald’s Office, whether I 
am to attend the procession or not. 
Believe me, 
Your much obliged humble servant, 
NELson. 
The codicil referred to in these letters 
proved to be, or at least to include, that 
memorable document which the Earl sup- 
pressed, when he produced the will, lest it 
should curtail his own share of the amount 
of favour which a grateful country would be 
anxious to heap on the representatives of the 
departed hero. By this unworthy conduct 
the fortunes of Lady Hamilton and her still 
surviving daughter were at once blighted. 
The Earl as tightly held all he had, as he 
grasped all he could get. It was expected 
that he would resign his stall at Canterbury 
in favour of his brother’s faithful chaplain, 
and when he “held on,” notwithstanding his 
peerage and riches, he was attacked in the 
newspapers. The following letter is the last 
communication with which Dr. Scott was 
honoured, for his work was done : — 
Canterbury, May 28. 1806. 
Sir,—I am glad to find, by your letter, that 
you are not concerned in the illiberal and un- 
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