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CHAPTER 50

1. Emma to Sir William Scott, autumn 1814, NMM NWD/9595/34.

2. Sarah Nelson to Emma, c. 1806, transcripts in a private collection.

3. Susanna Bolton to Emma, December 1806, NMM NWD/954/10-11.

4. Emma, draft of last will, October 16, 1806, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 196.5, f 167.

5. Lady's Magazine, June 1806.

6. Reminiscences of a servant at Bradenham Hall cited in William M. R. Haggard, letter (not sent) to The Times, March 16, 1801, Norfolk Record Office, HAG175 602.

7. Memoir of George Villiers Hyde, 5th Earl of Clarendon, in Jeremy Jepson Ripley "Recollections of the late Thomas Ripley by his Son" (manuscript, c. 1814), Beinecke Library, Osborn MS D29.

8. Emma to Sarah Nelson, August 27, 1807, NMM BRP/4.

9. William Beatty to Emma, February 2, 1808, Wellcome Library, MS 6242/4.

CHAPTER 51

1. Kitty Matcham to Emma, March 1808, NMM NWD/9594/7/A.

2. See Horatia to Sir Harris Nicolas, November 7, 1844, NMM NWD/9594/13-24.

3. See NMM NWD/9594/13-24.

4. William Beckford to Emma, 1806, Bodleian Library, Beckford MS, c. 30, f. 99. c. 16, ff. 52-55, 58, and c. 31, ff 92-100 (see also Beckford MS, c. 16, 40-41, c. 31, ff. 90, 107-26).

5. Matcham, The Nelsons of Burnham Thorpe, p. 267.

6. William Beatty to Emma, January 31, 1809, Wellcome Library, MS 6242/3.

7. Emma Hamilton, draft of last will, October 16, 1806, Houghton Library, MS Eng 196.5, f 167.

8. Matcham, The Nelsons of Burnham Thorpe, p. 267.

CHAPTER 52

1. Emma to Greville, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 196.5, 68.

2. David Wilkie's journal, in The Life of David Wilkie, ed. Allan Cunningham (London, 1843), I:220.

3. Germain Lavie to George Rose, April 1, 1809, Birmingham University Special Collections, MS21/2/70.

4. Nelson to Emma, March 1, 1801, Houghton Library, MS Eng. 22.

CHAPTER 53

1. Catalogues in Christie's archives.

2. Mrs. Sarah Connor, “Deposition,” December 29, 1808, NMM NWD/9594.

3. One suggested that the English lady should follow her look, appearing one day “as the Egyptian Cleopatra, then a Grecian Helen, next morning the Roman Cornelia; or if these styles be too august for her taste, there are sylphs, goddesses, nymphs of every region, in earth or in air, to lend her their wardrobe.” Anon, The Mirror of the Graces, or the English Lady's Costume (London, 1811), pp. 59-60.

4. On Sir Harry's possessions, see Uppark MS 658-97, West Sussex Record Office.

5. Duke of Queensberry to Abraham Goldsmid, July 9, 1801, Coutts Archives, Doc. 123.

6. William Beckford to Emma, October 18, 1810, Bodleian Library, Beckford MS, c. 30, f 99.

7. Beatty to Emma, August 30, 1811, Wellcome Library, MS 6242/5.

8. Sarah Connor to Emma, September 10, 1810, NMM NWD/9594.&/A.

9. Sarah Connor to Emma, December 19, 1810, Monmouth Museum, E543.

10. William Beckford to Emma, October 18, 1810, Bodleian Library, Beckford MS, c. 30, f 99.

11. Countess of Banbury to sisters-in-law, December 17, 1811, Hampshire Record Office, 1M 44/138/6.

CHAPTER 54

1. The Works of Thomas de Quincey, ed. Grevel Lindop (London, 2000), II:209.

2. See PRO AO/1/850/5, September 3, 1811.

3. NMM NWD/9594/34.

4. Letters and Diaries of George Rose, I:270.

5. Emma to [?] Lord Sidmouth, February 7, 1813, Monmouth Museum, E242.

6. See King's Bench Record Book, 1813, PRO PRIS 7/32.

7. Emma to Horatia Nelson, April 18, 1813, Houghton Library, FMS Lowell, 10.

8. “Sale of Elegant Household Furniture The Property of a Lady of Distinction,” July 8, 1813, NMM NWD/9594/13-14.

9. King's Bench Record Book, 1813, PRO PRIS 4/26/128.

CHAPTER 55

1. William Beatty to Emma, October 22, 1811, August 30, 1811, Wellcome MS 6242/5, 8.

2. Emma to Earl Nelson, April 29, 1814, BL Add. MS 34992.

CHAPTER 56

1. Emma to George Rose, July 4, 1814, Letters and Diaries of George Rose, II:272-73.

2. Horatia Nelson to Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas, March 28, 1846, NMM NWD/ 9594/13-24.

3. Emma, draft, September 14, 1814,