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Watercolour of the Bellerophon at Kalamita Bay, Heights of the Alma, September 1854 from the logbook of HMS Trafalgar kept by Captain Hereford (HRD/2/1)

The last letter written by Nelson to Horatia just before he died at Trafalgar (NWD/19)

The National Maritime Museum's collection of manuscripts is the largest and most important dedicated archive for the study of maritime history in the world. The collection occupies over four linear miles of shelf space and covers all aspects of British seafaring history from the 14th to the 20th centuries.

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