Letter from Eliza M. Peddie to Eleanor Isabella Gell, about the likely fate of the Franklin expedition, on which Mrs Peddie's husband had served Thanks for her sympathetic letter; she agrees with Eleanor that none of the officers or men are alive now; her husband's last letter from Disco says that, although not in the Erebus, he often dined with Eleanor's father and that he was more like a father than a supreme Commanding Officer to those serving under him; she has lost a little girl aged 4 and a half [early in 1849]. Marked in pencil as from Mrs Peddie, widow of an officer on the Terror. Letter only dated 20 Feb, but "?1852" has been added in pencil. Paper black-edged. 20 Feb [1852]