Letter from Sarah Henrietta Kay to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell, mainly on family news, including on Sarah Henrietta not wanting a servant woman of colour Thanks for trouble taken but she has got a cook who came last week and "we should not like to have a woman of colour about us, as our servant in that place is a good deal seen"; she wishes she had been told how Lady Simpkinson was, even though Emily had been to Christ's Hospital; alarm for Mary Anne over Franklin, who had a fever attack attended by delirium but was better now if weak and unable to leave his bed; Mary Kendall was also ill and gone to friends in Southampton for change of air and to be watched by their medical friend. 16 Nov 1856