Letters from Doctor James Fellows to his family and a letter from Dr William Beatty containing a lock of Nelson's hair.

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.

Object Details

ID: AGC/F/15
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Fellowes, James; Beatty, William
Date made: 1805-01-01 - ?; 1805-10-01 - 1805-10-31
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: folder
Parts: Letters - F (Manuscript)
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