num_pages: 336
description: Almost accidentally, Downer (formerly of Sotheby's London, UK) stumbled across a treasure trove of letters exchanged between Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson and the man who handled much of his civil and personal affairs, Alexander Davison. Not only was Davison a close friend of Nelson, but he was also a confidant of Nelson's wife and his mistress, Lady Hamilton. In following the events of the letters and investigating the provenance of a purse found with them (thought to have been with Nelson at the time of his death at Trafalgar), Downer reconstructs a number of aspects of Nelson's personal life and his friendship with Davison that has previously been unexplored. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
language: English
title: Nelson's Purse: The Mystery of Lord Nelson's Lost Treasures
titlecomplete: Nelson's Purse: The Mystery of Lord Nelson's Lost Treasures
genres: War, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 65
publisher: Smithsonian