Autograph Letter, signed “Emma Hamilton” , 22 April 1814, to James Perry

by Emma Hamilton

$10,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

4 pages, ink on a folded sheet. 4to. Docketed in ink on last page. Old folds. Traces of mounting at right margin of last page, edges gilt. Very good and entirely legible. With two portrait engravings. A portion of this letter is published in Emma, Lady Hamilton by Flora Fraser on pages 323 and 324 Knopf, 1987 . Item #374728 Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson, writes from debtor’s prison to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle,

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