Draft of letter for John Philip Gell to send to Sophia Cracroft, on discovery of a letter of Gell's wife on the wherebaouts of the Phillips portrait in May 1849 Having found a letter from his late wife to her father Sir John Franklin dated 7 May 1849, which was sent back to England undelivered; he quotes passage on being in her own room with the portrait Phillips hanging over the mantelpiece, as well as small bronze (now in Gell's possession); it was still in the care of Mr Griffin 2 years after the death of Franklin and vested in his late wife; he only has his side of the case, and there is a great mystery how it can have been purchased by Lady Franklin, which Sophy may be able to solve. 1 Mar 1892