Letter from Sophia Cracroft to John Philip Gell, stating that she had proof that Lady Franklin acquired the protrait in 1848 and that as far as she was concerned there would be no further correspondence on the matter Receipt of his letters of 23 and 27 Feb; she reminds him of a great deal of correspondence taking place in 1855 and refers him to the statements of Lady Franklin; she finds it indisputably confirmed in her bank acccounts of June 1848; she cannot go back through past and painful correspondence to find extra information for him; she regards the revival of his claim after so much time as unresonable, and she will ecxcuse herself from further correspondence on the subject. In 1855 her aunt voluntarily offered that the portrait ultimately be placed in the National Portrait Gallery, to which Eleanor acquiesced; after the death of her aunt she offered the portrait to the Gallery Trustees and they accepted it. 5 Mar 1892