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5. Nelson to Horatia, January 13, 1804, NMM NWD/9594/16.
6. Nelson to Emma, January 13, 1804, NMM NWD/9594/16.
7. Emma to Davison, October 1804, private collection, citation taken from Martyn Downer, Nelson's Purse (London, 2005), p. 276.
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1. Nelson to Emma, March 16, 1805, NMM TRA/13.
2. See Gillray's Dilettante Theatricals (1803) and also The Pic-Nic Orchestra (1802) and Blowing up the Pic-Nics (1802).
3. John Corry, A Satirical View of London (London, 1801), pp. 71-74.
4. Nelson to Emma, August 26, 1803, NMM Phillips, 34. See also Nelson to Emma, October 5, 1804, BL Egerton MS 1614, f. 108.
5. Elizabeth Stanhope to Dr. Vaughan, Ramsgate, August 17, 1804, Leicester Record Office.
6. See NMM BRP/9292/1.
7. Sarah Nelson to Emma, September 11, 1804, Beinecke Library General MS, 4:12, ALS, 8.
8. Ibid., February 27, 1805, Beinecke Library General MS, 4:12, ALS, 13.
9. Ibid., c. 1803, Beinecke Library General MS, 4:12, ALS, 14. Watch is in NMM BRP 9292/4.
10. Ibid., November 6, 1804, Beinecke Library General MS, 4:12, ALS, 11.
11. Nelson to Emma, September 9, 1805, BL Egerton MS 1614, f 106.
12. Ibid., September 10, 1805, Monmouth Museum, E400.
13. Ibid., May 16, 1805, NMM TRA/9421.
14. Nelson to Haslewood, May 16, 1805, NMM TRA/9421.
15. Morning Post, August 21, 1805 (report filed on August 19).
16. William Marsden, secretary to the Admiralty, had sent an express to Merton. See NMM CRK 9/5.
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1. Minto to Lady Minto, August 26, 1805, Minto, ed., Life and Letters, III:363.
2. Emma to Mrs. Lutwidge, September 3, 1805, NMM PST/39.
3. Susanna Bolton to Emma, 1805, NMM NWD/9594/7.
4. J. A. Andersen (pseud. for A. Feldborg), A Dane's Excursions in Britain (London, 1809), II:94-95.
5. Diary of Frances, Lady Shelley, ed. Richard Edgcumbe (London, 1912), I:79.
6. Emma to Mrs. Lutwidge, September 3, 1805, NMM PST/39.
7. Nelson to Emma, April 4, 1805, Monmouth Museum, E445.
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1. Cecilia Connor to Charlotte Nelson, October 4, 1805, NMM NWD/9594.
2. Emma to Nelson, October 4, 1805, NMM NWD/9594.
3. Ibid., October 8, 1805, NMM NWD/9594.
4. Nelson, October 21, 1805, NMM JOD/14.
5. Nelson to Horatia, October 19, 1805, BL Add. MS 44584, f 32.
6. Foster, Dearest Bess, pp. 127-28.
7. Emma to Davison, 1805, Sotheby's catalogue, Nelson: The Sale of the Alexander Davison Collection, (London, 2002), p. 175.
8. Rev. A. J. Scott to Mrs. Cadogan, October 27, 1805, BL Egerton MS 3782, f 1.
9. Matcham, The Nelsons of Burnham Thorpe, p. 238.
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1. Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine, February and March 1806.
2. For more on novels about Nelson and Emma, before and after his death, see my "Nelson and Women: Marketing, Representations and the Female Consumer," in Admiral Lord Nelson, Context and Legacy, ed. David Cannadine (Basingstoke, 2005), pp. 67-89.
3. William Beany to Emma, spring 1806, Wellcome Library, MS 6242/1.
4. Earl Nelson to Captain J. Yule, c. 1806-7, Wellcome Library, MS 7262/3.
5. William Beatty to Emma, October 15, 1806, Wellcome Library, MS 6242/2.
6. The Diaries and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. George Rose, ed. Leveson Vernon Harcourt (London, 1860), 11:255.
7. See PRO TS 317-35.
8. "Lord Nelson's Seat at Merton," Lady's Magazine, July 1806, p. 60.
9. Foster, Dearest Bess, p. 133.
10. In Sense and Sensibility, Austen's Dashwood leaves his substantial estate to his son, John, by his first marriage, and asks him to care for his second wife and their three daughters. After some debate, John decides his father meant him to help them move their furniture, and the women are left with nothing.
11. William Hayley to Emma, January 31, 1806, Beinecke Library, Osborn MS 16927.
12. Sarah Nelson to Emma, 1806, BL Add. MS 34992. When the coat was acquired for the nation nearly a hundred years later, the later Earl Nelson used this same letter to argue that the coat was his possession and should be attributed as his