Correspondence of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin The vast majority of letters are those written to Eleanor, from when a child aged 4 years old in 1828 to the year before her death in 1860; the only letters written by Eleanor in this series are 10 letters (1832-1849) to her cousin Catherine Franklin, later Rawnsley, who later gave them to John Philip Gell as mementos of his wife, and 2 letters to her aunt Elizabeth Franklin. 1828-1859