NELSON RELICS MAY BE LOST Received Wednesday, 7 p.m.
LONDON, Nov. 5. Viscount Trafalgar has informed the Daily Telegraph that the Nelson family is prepared to consider offers from tlie United States for the famous colieetion of Nelson relics whieh is to be offered for sale with Trafalgar House. 1 ' I would prefer the relics to remain here, ' ' said Viscount Trafalgar, ' ' but I ean see no objections to the Americans having them. Americans who visited this country during the war showed much more interest in the admiral than our own people have done and I believe the relics will be much more prized in New York. " The relics include Nelson 's leather chair from his cabin in the Victory, one of his telescopes, his pistols, his watch, his uniforms and the seal with whieh he closed his dispatch reporting the Batfle of Copenhagen.
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 November 1947, Page 5
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