Contains 3 letters the first from Dr William Beatty to Sir Fellowes includes an authenticated lock of Nelson's hair sent to Sir James by Beatty. The second letter from Sir James Fellows to his brother William Dorset Fellowes written on board the BEAGLE sloop of war beginning 1 October 1805 and concluding 31 October 1805 at Gibraltar with an account of the Battle of Trafalgar and the fate of the ships and wounded. The third letter from Sir James Fellow to his father dated 5 November 1805 at Global describing his visit to the VICTORY after the Battle of Trafalgar and told Nelson's body was in a cash of rum casket lashed in the castern on the main deck.

Administrative / biographical background
Sir James Fellowes (1771 - 30 December 1857) was a British military physician. He was made physician to the amy forces in October 1795, accompanying Admiral Christian's fleet to Santo Domingo and being sent to Gibraltar in 1804 to treat a contagious yellow fever outbreak there. After the Battle of Trafalgar the VICTORY and several other ships arrived in Gibraltar port allowing James to go on board the VICTORY. Dr. Sir William Beatty (April 1773–25 March 1842) was an Irish surgeon who served in the Royal Navy. He joined as a surgeon's mate in 1791 at the age of 18. He is best known as the Ship's Surgeon on the HMS VICTORY during the Battle of Trafalgar, at which he witnessed the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson, and for authoring an account of that battle – The Death of Lord Nelson.