Left-Hand Dispatches — Tenerife 1797

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A log and quill on an orlop table. Not a facsimile of a named letter.

Overview

The dispatches are already on Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797 and Eshelby’s Surgical Log — 24 July 1797. Nelson was writing dispatches with his left hand within days of the 24 July 1797 amputation.¹

The Letters

This note covers that fact only. Addressees, a first-letter date, and letter texts stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. White p.112 is the page on the Tenerife notes. Verbatim lines stay on @white2005nelson.

The operation itself is on Eshelby Thomas — Surgeon HMS Theseus and Amputation Surgery at Sea — 18th Century.²

Sources

• @white2005nelson — p.112
• Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797
• Eshelby’s Surgical Log — 24 July 1797

Related

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Same Subject

• Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797
• Eshelby’s Surgical Log — 24 July 1797
• Eshelby Thomas — Surgeon HMS Theseus
• HMS Theseus — Overview

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Footnotes

1. Writing dispatches with his left hand within days: Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797 and Eshelby’s Surgical Log — 24 July 1797, citing White p.112. ↩

2. Operation on those notes. Do not invent addressees, a first-letter date, or letter texts. Do not recopy verbatim lines. ↩