| Description | He has not seen any reference to the portraits referred to in his letter; he is uncertain to which portrait in the N.P.G. is meant; he asks whether there are two by Phillips; one he knows best has Sir John in a choker, looking to his left, with no uniform or medals, part of the Cracroft Bequest, a pair to the portrait of his own grandfather, painted and exhibited in 1825, the latter being at Haslar; does he refer to the portrait on page 88 in his sister-in-law's book [Franklin''s Bride by Edith M. Gell]; the picture reproduced in "The Arctic Council" is by Negelen, the only one he can remember is by Jackson; if Gell is acquiring the new pictre, could he have a photograph. References to Mrs Burton leaving the "Nelson" ring to Greenwich: the death of his aunt, widow of General Richardson, at Spilsby at beginning of year; the male line of the Richardson dying out: acquisition of watch presented to Hepburn by Rev. Hood in memory of his bravery on the first Franklin expedition; anxious to obtain any Arctic books, as his grandftaher left hardly any. PS: he supposes the Austen-Leigh in the Time today has some conenction with the Lefroys; is Mrs Clements still alive. |
| Sender Location | 52 St Johns Park, Blackheath, S.E. 3 |
| Recipient | Henry Wilingham Gell, MA, MD |