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Footnotes
This letter is to John Bourdon Fellowes who had served as Nelson's purser and secretary throughout his time on the Agamemnon. Nelson held him in high regard, and secured for him a lieutenancy (see White, New Letters, p.164). A year earlier Nelson wrote to St Vincent: "I have been much distresses at finding that Mr Thomas Fellowes, who served with me as Purser during the whole time I commanded the Agamemnon, has not only lost his appointment of Purser to His Majesty's Ship Superb, owing to an arrest for debt, but is involved, with a wife and family, in the most abject misery, without the slightest means of support for them, or for himself...speaking from my own knowledge, I can safely say that Mr Fellowes is a man of strictly honest principles, and I believe his distresses to be chiefly owing to the want of integrity, or the negligence, of those who were entrusted with his concerns in the Ship, at those periods when he was absent on duty"; and he told Captain Berry: "I would lend him money, but in truth I have it not" (26 November and 26 January 1801). The letter is not published by Nicolas, Dispatches and Letters, or White, New Letters.

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