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An erotic letter penned by Lord Nelson to his mistress Lady Hamilton, recounting a raunchy dream, has sold for more than £117,000 at auction.
The earliest surviving love letter from the admiral to Emma Hamilton was written in February 1800, a month after the pair embarked on their passionate affair.
As the English fleet attempted to maintain a Mediterranean blockade against Napoleon's forces, Horatio was dreaming of his mistress ashore.
The admiral wrote: "I can neither eat or sleep for thinking of you my dearest love, I never touch even pudding. Last night I did nothing but dream of you altho' (sic) I woke 20 times in the night.
"In one of my dreams I thought I was at a large table, you was not present, sitting between a Princess who I detest and another. They both tried to seduce me and the first wanted to take those liberties with me which no woman in this world but yourself ever did."
The fantasy ends: "You came in and taking me to your embrace whispered I love nothing but you my Nelson. I kissed you fervently and we enjoy'd (sic) the height of love".
The letter, written while Nelson sailed from Livorno to Palermo, five years before Trafalgar, fetched £117,250 - more than three times its pre-sale estimate. It was one of 40 documents relating to Nelson in the London sale at Christie's.
Another highlight, an impassioned letter written by Nelson on hearing rumours about the Prince of Wales's feelings towards Lady Hamilton, fetched £28,680. He wrote: "I know his aim is to have you as a mistress. The thought so agitates me that I cannot write...I am in tears I cannot bear it."
A letter praising Lady Hamilton's patriotism, written shortly after the birth of Horatia, his child by her, sold for £33,460. A total £561,185 was raised in The Spiro Family Collection of English Historical Documents and Letters sale.
A document issued by Elizabeth's half-sister and predecessor, Mary I, during the crisis with which her reign opened, went under the hammer for £28,680. A dramatic call to arms and signed six days after the death of King Edward VI, the document is a response to the conspiracy to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne.
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