Letter from Hannah Booth to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell, on visits and assorted family news Has arrived from Shiplake this morning having stayed longer with Catharine; travelled with Catharine to Paddington; has been to see niece's children, going to have tea with the boys; sympathises that Eleanor is still "harrassed with unprofitable correspondence", must trust to God; prospect of Catharine Cracroft marrying clergyman, with hope that wedding will not be like Emma's, which she believed was of an "improper and unfeeling character"; Sir John Richardson passed over in favour of a junior, J Liddle, and offered Greenwich (vacated by Liddle), which caused Richardson to resign; love to nephew; love from Franklin; Franklin and Phillip happy to come to see her Letter only dated 25 April, but 1855 has been added in pencil; the reference to John Richardson's resignation from Haslar Hospital confirms it as 1855. Paper black-edged. 25 Apr [1855]