Nelson, Charles Dodgson, and family history Small archive relating to the Lowthorpe-Lutwidge family of Preston, Whitehaven and Holmrook Hall, Cumbria, comprising: (i) visitor's book of Holmrook Hall, including signatures of CHARLES DODGSON (aka Lewis Carroll, 'Ch. Ch., Oxford, Sep. 11 / 73'), his brother Wilfred Longley Dodgson and sister-in-law Alice Jane Dodgson, with myriad members of the extended Lowthorpe-Lutwidge families, and, loosely inserted: NELSON (HORATIO) Autograph address panel, to 'Admiral Lutwidge / Commander in Chief / Downs / with a packet for Mr Nepean', fragment cut from a larger leaf, edges curled and slightly frayed, 80 x 120mm., [n.d. but c.1801]--NELSON'S FUNERAL. Letter signed by William Marsden, Secretary to the Admiralty ('Wm. Marsden') to Admiral Skeffington Lutwidge, inviting him to be a pall-bearer at Nelson's funeral, one page, folio, Admiralty Office, 2 January 1806, nineteenth century green morocco by P. & F. Schäfer, upper cover gilt with monogram of Charles Robert Fletcher Lutwidge, Esq. (1835-1907), 4to (ii) a pair of brass trumpets, engraved with crests and the motto 'Deo patriae amicis', with pendant banners bearing coat of arms of Lutwidge quartering Lowthorpe, most likely for Col. Ernest Frederick Lowthorpe-Lutwidge (1865-1927), thick red and grey silk, embroidered and appliqué including with gold-coloured wire thread, fringed on three sides (iii) testimonials from the city of Tunbridge Wells to C.R.F. Lutwidge (2 large bound volumes, one scroll), 2 late nineteenth century pedigrees, 3 illuminated grants of arms (to C.R.F. Lutwidge, 1891; to James Lowthorpe of Welton Hall, 1891; to Ernest Frederick Lowthorpe-Lutwidge, 1908), and a handful of other items Footnotes: Admiral Skeffington Lutwidge (1737-1814) commanded an expedition to the Arctic on HMS Carcass in 1773, on which Horatio Nelson served as a midshipman. It was he who, by 1800, began to circulate the story that while the ship had been trapped in the ice, Nelson had seen and pursued a polar bear, before being ordered to return to the ship. By 1801 Nelson was again serving under Admiral Lutwidge, now as captain of HMS Medusa. The present address panel may originate from a letter Nelson sent to Ludwidge on 22 August 1801, requesting him to add a letter to the packet Lutwidge is making up for Nepean (see Swann Galleries, 16 June 2022, lot 118). Lutwidge died at his estates at Holmrook in Cumbria in 1814. Admiral Lutwidge's great-niece was Francis Jane Lutwidge, the mother of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and the family were visitors to Holmrook. Dodgson's cousin C.R. Fletcher Ludwidge never married, so his estate was inherited by his cousin Ernest Frederick Lowthorpe, who added the surname Lutwidge under the terms of the will. Provenance: By family descent to the present owner. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing