Letter from Elizabeth Franklin to her niece Eleanor Isabella Franklin, during the latter's residence in Tasmania, including references to the events surrounding the coronation of Queen Victoria in England Aunt's poor health, refers to Eleanor's description of proclamation about the Queen in Hobart, not as splendid as in England, omission of champion exhibition and banquet from Coronation pageantry: cousin witnessed the Grand Procession, bells ringing in the countryside, plum cake for children, money for parents; description of fire in Government outbuildings, and comments on poisonous snakes and Jackass-songster; questions about naming of geographical features after friends and family; birthday wishes for Eleanor and her father, family illness, stormy and bad weather throughout England and Europe for the last year, also in Van Diemen's Land [now Tasmania]; Emily Sellwood and father travelled to Berkshire: Emily, like Lady Franklin, needs excitement; Anne Sellwood has been in Guernsey, Emily will be "left to visit the Tennyson family" at Beech Hall near London; Aunt Evans has arrived safely in England, has had a baby, Mary has got married. Difficult handwriting to read 14 Aug 1838