goodness of heart, is unparalleled: and only believe, for ever, and
beyond it, your faithful and devoted

NELSON & BRONTE.

Victory, August 24th, 1803.




LETTER XXXVI.


[_N.B. The Mysterious Letter appears to have been inclosed in this
Packet_.]

August 26th, 1803.
Wrote several days past.

MY DEAREST EMMA,

By the Canopus, Admiral Campbell, I have received all your truly kind
and affectionate letters, from May 20th to July 3d; with the exception
of one, dated May 31st, sent to Naples.

This is the first communication I have had with England since we
sailed.

All your letters, _my dear letters_, are so entertaining! and which
paint so clearly what you are after, that they give me either the