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If we have talents," wrote Horatio Nelson on 13 January 1804, "we have no right to keep them under a bushel, they are ours for the benefit of the Community."
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Mr. White is director of Trafalgar 200 at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. For more information regarding The Nelson Letters Project, or to tell him about any letters you know about, contact him at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, SE10 9NF, United Kingdom, or through e-mail at CWhite@nmm.ac.uk.
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