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3. Nelson to Fanny, cited by Fanny in a letter to Alexander Davison, February 24, 1801, NMM DAV/2/30.
4. Nelson to Emma, n.d. (February 1801), BL Egerton MS 1614, f 22.
5. Ibid., July 29, 1801, Monmouth Museum, E95.
6. Ibid., January 28, 1801, Monmouth Museum, E91.
7. Ibid., March 2, 1801, Houghton Library, MS Eng 196.5, 22.
8. She later put out a disclaimer declaring that she did not attend. See Morning Herald, February 7, 1801.
9. In 1787, Maria Fitzherbert had been Dido Forsaken, and Gillray also recalls Joshua Reynolds's The Death of Dido, for which Emma probably modeled in her youth.
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1. Nelson to Emma, January 29, 1801, BL Egerton MS 1614, f. 16.
2. Ibid., February 20, 1801, Huntington Library, HM 34044.
3. Foster, Dearest Bess, p. 166.
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1. Nelson to Emma, March 2, 1801, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 196.5, 22.
2. Ibid., March 1, 1801. See Christie's catalog, The Age of Nelson, p. 40.
3. Fanny to Alexander Davison, February 20, 1801, NMM DAV/50.
4. Beckford to Emma, November 24, 1800, Bodleian Library, Beckford MS c. 4, f. 55.
5. Emma to Mrs. Gibson, February 11, 1801, NMM NWD/9594/9.
6. Abraham Gibbs to Sir William, July 13, 1802, BM Add. MS, ff. 221-22.
7. Morning Herald, April 12, 1801.
8. Nelson to Emma, March 1, 1801, Houghton Library, FMS Lowell, 10.
9. Ibid., March 17, 1801, NMM MON/1/19.
10. Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, Historical Memoirs of My Own Time (London, 1904), p. 141.
11. Nelson to Emma, April 25, 1801, BL Egerton MS, f. 46.
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1. Nelson to Emma, June 8, 1801, BL Egerton MS 1614, f. 63.
2. The Times, August 4, 1801.
3. Nelson to William Haslewood, August 27, 1801, Monmouth Museum, E96 and E98.
4. Ibid., September 4, 1801, Monmouth Museum, E100.
5. Nelson to Emma, October 2, 1801, Houghton Library, FMS Lowell, 10.
6. The paintings probably included the Schmidt pastel, a Romney portrait, and also Vigée-Lebrun's Bacchante.
7. See Houghton Library, MS Eng. 196.5, 25.
8. Thomas Bennett to Nelson, August 30, 1805, Monmouth Museum, E401.
9. Minto, ed., Life and Letters, III:242.
10. Samuel Ragland to Sir William, April 6, 1802, BL Add. MS 41200, f. 214.
11. Beinecke Library, General MS, 4:12, ALS 3, Sarah Nelson to Emma, October 1801.
12. Ibid., ALS 4 and 5, Sarah Nelson to Emma, October 1801.
13. Sarah Nelson to Charlotte Nelson, October 1802, NMM BRP/1.
14. Fanny to Nelson, December 18, 1801, Monmouth Museum, E979.
15. Emma to Mrs. Gibson, December 14, 1801, NMM NWD/9594/9.
16. “Favourite Sultana,” Monmouth Museum, E206.
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1. Emma to Captain Bedford, February 13, 1802, BM Add. MS 34902, f. 6.
2. Merton Church registers, April 1802.
3. Morning Post, August 25, 1802.
4. Coventry Mercury, September 6, 1802.
5. Emma to Kitty Matcham, 1802, NMM MAM/23.
6. Morning Post, August 31, 1802.
7. Lady's Magazine, January 1803, p. 44.
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1. Morning Herald, September 14, 1802.
2. Emma to Mrs. Gibson, September 1802, NMM NWD/9594/1, 9.
3. Emma to Sir William with his response and sentences by her, 1803, MS Eng 196.5, 64.
4. Morning Herald, October 19, 1802.
5. Merton accounts, October 4-11, 1802, Houghton Library, MS Eng 196.5, 27.
6. Oracle and Daily Advertiser, March 18, 1802.
7. Emma to Kitty Matcham, December 23, 1802, NMM MAM/23.
8. Mary Eyre Matcham, The Nelsons of Burnham Thorpe (London, 1911), p. 204.
9. Morning Post, January 31, 1803.
10. Emma to John Parrott, May 14, 1803, private collection.
11. Morning Herald, April 19, 1803.
12. Mrs. Gibson to Emma, “Copy of Horatia's Baptism,” May 13, 1803, NMM NWD/9594/9.
13. Friday, May 13, 1803, St. Marylebone Church registers, London Metropolitan Archives.
14. See Sarah Nelson to Emma, Monmouth Museum, E538.
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1. Vigée-Lebrun, Memoirs, p. 154.
2. See Christie's Catalogue, Nelson, Napoleon, and their Time: The Calvin Bullock Collection, (London, 1985), p. 189.
3. Morning Post, December 21, 1803.
4.