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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D8760/F/GHW/1/3/45
Former Reference
D3311/83/69
Title
Draft incomplete letter from Philip Lyttleton Gell to Lady Lyons, on his visiting the National Portrait Gallery to see a copy of a portrait of Sir John Franklin and seeing a portrait of Lord Lyons near it
Date
[Jul 1913]
Description
For £10 10 shillings his copyist Mr Bagshawe has given him a quite excellent reproduction of his grandfather; he thought she might be interested in securing a copy of Lord Lyons for Kilvrough [family home in Glamorgan]. Marked with later notes that it was the small oil painting hanging in the Morning Room and that the letter related to the Franklin portrait at Hopton.
Extent
1 sheet
Level
Item
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Sender
Philip Lyttelton Gell
Sender Location
Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Recipient
Lady Lyons
Recipient Location
No address
Archive Creator
Henry Willingham Gell (1856-1942)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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Gell; Henry Willingham (1856-1942); doctor and physician
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