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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/GHW/1/3/32 |
| Former Reference | D3311/83/30 |
| Title | Draft letter from John Philip Gell to Messrs Rickards, on reference in one of his wife's letters to the Phillips portrait |
| Date | 26 Feb 1892 |
| Description | 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as small bronze (now in Gell's possession); he fails to see how it could have been bought between 1849 and 1853 and withdrawn from probate in 1855 |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
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| Sender | John Philip Gell |
| Sender Location | No address |
| Recipient | Rickards and Son |
| Recipient Location | No address |
| Archive Creator | Henry Willingham Gell (1856-1942) |
| Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
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