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THREE LETTERS FOR THE STATE FUNERAL OF LORD NELSON THREE LETTERS FOR THE STATE FUNERAL OF LORD NELSON including a 3pp. autograph letter signed 8vo, addressed to a Fred Booth, and on the address panel the address of 1/6 Spring Gardens, London and a post mark of 20th January 1806, starting ‘My Dear Fred’ and refers to a Jacobean Party, and probably because the State Funeral of Nelson just days earlier, a party in his honour, and a reference to Nelson by stating ‘no one seems to have courage enough to say that if one must fall let us fall like men – We are paying every honour to that can be paid to the memory of Lord Nelson without wishing indirectly to imitate him and aspire to the same veneration of Posterity’, 2 large pieces missing from second leaf with some loss of text and sender’s signature, folded for posting; together with a letter signed by Ralph Bigland, Norroy, King of Arms and dated 14th December 1805 to Mr Robert Laurie and giving him details of the forth coming funeral of Lord Viscount Nelson at St Paul’s Cathedral. 1 page autograph letter signed 8vo, he starts by saying ‘the chief mourner and Pall Bearers to be admirals in his Majesty’s Navy, the first to be Lord Barham, as First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty or Sir Peter Parker Bart as Admiral of the Fleet', Bigland goes on to add that the body will be brought down the Thames from Greenwich to Whitehall, spend one night at the Admiralty and then be taken onto St Pauls, letter signed for postage and with traces of red sealing wax; and a document, 1 page 8vo, dated Thursday 16th January 1806 and reporting that the Committee who had overseen the funeral of Nelson held an event at the London Coffee House and that involved Captain Hardy, Mr Beatty the Surgeon, the Reverend Scott (Bother of Nelson’s secretary) and twelve other officers who had served with him, at the end of the evening Mr Birch introduced the song ‘Rule Britannia’ with 5 extra verses dedicated to Nelson and all those at Trafalgar (3) Item one: 2 pieces missing from second leaf (due to attachement of red wax seal) with some loss of text and sender’s signature, folded for posting.