Letter from Hannah Booth to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell, on search expeditions, including on voluntary funding by Lady Franklin and colonists of Tasmania Wider family is scattered; 'Isabel' is going out, privately funded, to Behring's Straits, taking supplies to searchers; ought to be Government funded; £500 sent by colonists of Van Diemen's land to help pay for search; hopes this year will have news; Frank Simpkinson did not destroy the Bond "for his own sake"; Lady Franklin unlikely to be able to put it to use for funding, has just voluntary funding and own monies; has received a letter from Emma, who intends to live with Mr Evans' family in Wales; son spending few days in London in April; Mary Anne and two grand-daughters coming; uncle is well; hopes that Eleanor, husband and "my darling babies" likewise; has invited Emma to come. 15 Mar 1853