h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/empire_seapower/nelson_emma_01.shtml

and this

Horatia PART 3 perhaps she is almost unknown

good things here

That's one link I haven't see before

There is still a lot more to Emma before she goes to France


lil x

a love note

sold by Bonhams in London who said that a short but emotional letter written in about 1801 would appear at its next books and manuscripts auction on 13 November with an estimate of between £6,000-£8,000.

In it, Nelson refers to what appears to be a disagreement the previous evening. "My Dear Lady," he writes, "I shall not come to Your house after what passed last night 'till You send for Me when I shall fly, I will never retract one Syllable I utter'd, or one thought I felt, Never will I sit tamely and see You My Dear friend Neglected or Insulted." He signs himself: "Ever Your Most Sincere and Affectionate Nelson."

Cooo

this will be am excellent set of entries

That should keep me occupied for another 4 years!

No you will have it done in half the time

I'm a very slow researcher

well I cant fault any entry on your PS

Awww... Thank you

No problem

Nice Entry Lil

<> I've seen this in a number of places in the Guide. It should be *Edgware Road*

Page Turner:
Entry: Emma, Lady Hamilton: The Early Years - A25927923
Author: lil ~ ACE/Scout/CE/Guru ~ Auntie Giggles - U551837

That typo seems to have set your teeth on edge, or should that be on edg?

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Edgware is a Saxon name. It means "Ecgi's weir". Ecgi must have been a Saxon and the weir relates to a pond where Ecgi's people would catch fish. Over many years the name slowly became Edgware, and Ecgi as an individual is long since forgotten. By 1489, and the beginning of the Tudor period those writing the name added the "d" and it was Edggewa

there you go Lil spelling seems irrelevant

Thanks, h5


Edgware it is!


Probably just my typing that added the 'e'


lil x

Two of the better sources I used for some of my information on Lady Hamilton were;

Nelson's Legacy
Lady Hamilton:
Her Story & Tragedy

Frank Danby

1915



Memoirs
of Lady Hamilton

2nd Edition

1815

Although this sounds like an autobiography it contains her final days


These are both available at Google Books (use the 'Advanced Search' option and select 'Full View'. They can either be read on-line or downloaded in several formats (I use PDF)

If you find them of any use in completing your second section you are most welcome to them, I just want to read it



F S

Thanks, FS! I've noted those


It really is important to have something about her final years.

Can't very well tell all about her years of mourning and debtor's prison and then say...

'Oh, and then she died - destitute, in France'!


lil x

>Can't very well tell all about her years of mourning and debtor's prison and then say...

>'Oh, and then she died - destitute, in France'!

That is almost the way it happened
I don't think she was in a position to entertain the restored Bourbons in her appartments.

However you stop with their arrival in London, we still have to learn about;
The Birth and childhood of Horatia,

The Death of Sir William,

Their times during the Peace of Amiens,

A brief mention of Nelsons Letters and the report of his death,

The way she continued her extravagant lifestyle until it ruined her, it does not sound like she spent a great deal of time in mourning, but I would love to be corrected here,

In the Legacy account from my previous post a man named 'Greville' appears to have set out to deliberately embarrass Emma (I have not read the details closely),

I don't think she got any further into France than Calais, but again I have not really studied the time with any care.

One of the reasons I put so much time into the life of Horatia was to off-set the sudden demise of Emma.

After 200+ years it would be good to see a compassionate view of a woman who was so reviled at the time.

Again I see no problem with our covering the same subject from different view points. I love the fact that I represent Nelson's annoyance on landing in England with Fanny not meeting him when they landed, you place that she was not home when he returned to their house. It is not a matter of fact, but perspective. I really want to read Emma's, and your, perspective on my own observations.

What was it like to be the mistress of a Lord in Parliament?

F S