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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/FEG/1/25/1 |
| Former Reference | D3287/31/7/14 |
| Title | Letter from Mary Price to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Franklin, including references to Sir John Franklin's recall to England from Tasmania |
| Date | [1843] |
| Description | Letter is undated but 1842 has been added in pencil at top; the references to Sir John's Franklin recall would tend to suggest that the year should be 1843. |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
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| Sender | Mary Price |
| Sender Location | No address |
| Recipient | Eleanor Isabella Franklin |
| Recipient Location | Macquarie Street [Hobart] |
| Archive Creator | Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860) |
| Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
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| Term | Colonialism |
| British Empire |
| Letters (documents) |
| Transcript or Index | 1842 (in pencil)
Mrs Price to Miss Franklin Macquarie St (in pencil)
My dear Eleanor
I would have answered your note on Saturday but Mr Price did not give it to me until he left the house on Saturday morning – You know I suppose that I had a letter from Mrs Richardson the other day. She was in a weak state expecting her confinement daily. Uncle and Aunt Booth are at Friskney. Mary evidently thinks you have left V.D. L. I will transcribe what she says relative to my Uncle’s return.
"We are all longing for our dear Uncle’s return. The Montagu tricks which can annoy him so much out with you, will glance of [sic] from him quite harmless at home, & his many & powerful friends only wait for his return to have all explained & set right. A man with so many excellent & great friends can well afford to have a few ennemies and some ill natured things said of him. The Colony will not know half it owes to the Franklins till some longer time has elapsed and asperities are softened down which now exist.”
If I can possibly come over on Wednesday I will for I wish to see as I can of you as I can [sic]. Will you give Sophy the accompanying muslin and ribbon. Tell her to send me the fronts of Tom’s shirt & a pattern as I have a good shirt maker in the house. I will get it made for him. I will either send or bring Sophy’s sponge on Wednesday.
Will you thank Mrs Nixon for the shoestrings.
Goodbye dear Eleanor
Ever your affectionate cousin
M Price
Give my best love to my Uncle and Aunt – When are you all coming?
[Addressed to] Miss Franklin, Macquarie Street |
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