After Selling Napoleon Memorabilia, Sotheby’s Turns to His Enemy, Horatio Nelson, for $8 M. Auction

After selling Napoleon Bonaparte’s worn stockings and other “deeply personal relics that reflected the inner world” of the French emperor last year, Sotheby’s is now laying bare the personal life of his great adversary, Admiral Horatio Nelson, on the auction block.The house will offer 415 letters, documents, and manuscripts connected to Nelson in a single-lot, sealed-bid sale with a high estimate of £6 million ($8 million). They include personal letters to his mistr