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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/FEG/1/8/4 |
| Former Reference | D3287/32/1/18 |
| Title | First page of letter from Elizabeth Gell to her sister-in-law Eleanor Isabella Gell, following the announcement on the presumed deaths of Sir John Franklin and his men |
| Date | 27 Jan [1854] |
| Description | Sympathy over distress following decision of the Admiralty; hope that her father may have long been at rest and spared suffering feared by his friends; hope that they stay away from the bishopric of Canterbury Settlement.
Only dated Friday 27 Jan, and although 1851 or 1852 have been suggested in pencil, it is much more likely to be 1854, when the Admiralty announced the expedition men were to be taken from the payroll, thereby considering them effectively no longer alive. |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
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| Sender | Elizabeth Gell |
| Sender Location | No address |
| Recipient | Eleanor Isabella Gell |
| Recipient Location | No address |
| Archive Creator | Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860) |
| Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
| Format | Document |
| Term | Franklin Expedition (1845) |