Letter from John Philip Gell to his wife Eleanor Isabella Gell, during his stay in Dorset for meetings of clergymen: with envelope He had a good meeting with quarrymen at Langton the previous night. ‘The rector is abroad, fled away from his curates who bully him, one an army doctor and the other a common doctor before they took orders. He is staying with a Mr Sewell who is ‘’ a model of a squire.’’ He asks what Macguire is like: he would like to know before he sees the Bishop of London whom he would like to involve in a plan of a general kind. Love to Marian. He is close to Branksea Castle where Colonel Waugh has set up residence. Envelope postmarked for Maltravers Langton and Wareham 13 Oct 1857 and London 14 Oct 1857 13 Oct 1857