Wow, it's been forever since I last wrote here... :/ I've been doing AS exams so I've been quite distracted these last few months.
Anyway, have you guys heard about the Nelson letter that sold for £54,000? I noticed they usually sell for around £10,000, so I was really surprised when I heard how much this one sold for, especially since it doesn't seem to have anything particularly special in it! I guess it shows how popular he still is, if people are willing to pay that price for a letter of his.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-de ... e-23098494Also, a letter written by Nelson to a friend, presumably not long after the Battle of Cape St. Vincent, contains lyrics to a sea shanty written by his crew about him! I thought that was really cool, and shows just how much he was truly loved by his men!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/batt ... 25000.htmlI've put the lyrics here, in case someone can't use the link:
Shipmates put about the grog
give old father time a jog
and that he may quicker flee
to bring Nelson back to sea,
kind my shipmates with your jog
that you give him too some grog
And when he shall Nelson bring
of quill and feathers from each wing
pluck my lads at least a score
we shall want them all and more
to record some future story
of brave Nelson's glory
Avast! and unplucked let him go
for where to write we should not know
since Nelson (Neptune's favourite son)
in glory's seas a course has run
to bright to quick and yet to ready
Damn! his log book's full of fame already