Diaries of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin The diaries relate to her time in Tasmania while her father was Lieutenent Governor of Van Diemen's Land [now Tasmania] including the journey out, her later travels with her aunt to the Americas, the continent and within England, and after her marriage to John Philip Gell. She was not a consistent writer in her diaries, and there are frequent gaps between dates, as well as lengthy periods when not entires were made. 1836-1850