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D8760 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1714-1994
- F - Family records of the extended Franklin family and the Gell family of Hopton Hall - 1714-1994
  - FEG - Records of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin, daughter of Sir John and Eleanor Franklin and wife of Reverend John Philip Gell - 1828-[early 20th cent]
    - 1 - Correspondence of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin - 1828-1859
      - 2 - Letters from Jane, Lady Franklin (née Griffin) to her stepdaughter Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1828-1849

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/2/1
Former Reference	D3287/31/8
Title	Letter from Jane Griffin to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, just before Jane's marriage to Sir John Franklin
Date	[Sep 1828]
Description	Lady Franklin had brought a letter to her from Mrs Kay, and she thinks Eleanor would like one from herself now: she wishes Eleanor to think of her, as she loves Eleanor very much: she hopes Eleanor will come to see her and Papa and that they will be happy together. She and her Papa have been a very long way across the sea on a ship: she sends Eleanor and Kitty [Catherine Cracroft], two pairs of shoes and two dolls, guessing she knows what the latter are made of. Love to Mama [Isabella Cracroft], Kitty and all the cousins: she asks when Tom might go to school. Sent while she and John Franklin were visiting the continent before their marriage on 5 Nov 1828. [Roderic Owen in "The Fate of Franklin" refers to Jane and Franklin purchasing the shoes and dolls in Leyden in the Netherlands, before their arrival home in October]
Extent	1 sheet
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
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Sender	Jane Griffin
Sender Location	No address
Recipient	Eleanor Isabella Franklin
Recipient Location	Brighton
Archive Creator	Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth

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