MOC Primary Documents

The raw evidence — letters, logs, orders, newspapers, and maps that everything else is built on.

Subdomains

Letters_Correspondence_Index — personal letters, diplomatic correspondence, orders
Official_Records_Index — ship logs, admiralty orders, muster books, prize court records
Newspapers_Pamphlets_Index — contemporary press coverage, broadsides, propaganda pamphlets
Maps_Charts_Index — historical maps, sea charts, battle plans, survey documents
Memoirs_Diaries_Index — personal accounts, journals, autobiographies, oral history records

Eshelby’s Surgical Log — 24 July 1797 — first filled official-record note; Tenerife log only

Left-Hand Dispatches — Tenerife 1797 — first filled letters note; White p.112 only

@knight2005pursuit — Knight, The Pursuit of Victory (Allen Lane 2005)
@white2005nelson — White, Nelson: The New Letters (Boydell 2005)
@adkin2005trafalgar — Adkin, The Trafalgar Companion (Aurum 2005)
@adkins2005trafalgar — Adkins, Trafalgar (2005), p. 323; Villeneuve Rennes-death debate only. Not Adkin’s Companion.
@beatty1807nelson — Beatty, Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson (1807)
@hughes1957collingwood — Hughes ed., Private Correspondence of Admiral Lord Collingwood (Navy Records Society 1957)
@adkins2005trafalgar — Adkins, Trafalgar (2005); Villeneuve p.323 only. Not Mark Adkin’s Companion
@eshelby1797log — Eshelby’s surgical log, 24 July 1797 (White p.112)
@nelson1805memorandum — Nelson’s Secret Memorandum, 9 October 1805
@southey1813nelson — Southey, The Life of Nelson (John Murray, London, 1813); hagiographic founding biography
@nicolas1844dispatches — Nicolas, The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, vol. 1 (Henry Colburn, London, 1844); first edition, not 1845