May 18
People stealing Nelson’s belongings once they find out who’s trunks they’re transporting to and from docks.
In his letters first to his wife Fanny, he complains that he can’t find some of the most trivial things. Stockings! Someone has taken his stockings!!!
When he becomes, frankly a continental icon much more of his belongings go missing and frequently too.
No wonder he wears his breast stars and the flashy diamond Chelengk (which had a clockwork mechanism to make the large central diamond turn so it was constantly gleaming) nearly all the time. Can’t trust anyone not to pinch his sparklies!!
