Horatio Nelson to Lady Emma Hamilton (Letter written in Madarasz Script)

These are the first words of Horatio Nelson’s last letter to his lover Lady Emma Hamilton, written in the night before the battle of Trafalgar (in which he was fatally wounded). Since a while I have been studying Madarasz’ famous script which he calls ’Roundhand’, but which looks very different than usual Copperplate calligraphy and is famous among calligrapher’s for its ’dashing’ quality ;). In ’The Madarasz Book’ he explains in detail how to write it and I have been following his instructions … working