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D3287 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - [13th-20th cent]

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D3287/12
Title	Box 12 - Sisters' Letters
Description	This box contains `Sisters Letters'. These were written under an agreement between the four married daughters of William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton: Edith Lyttelton Gell (1866-1944) who married Philip Lyttelton Gell in 1889, Helen (1859-1937) who married Archibald Ean Campbell in 1885, Augusta (1854-1934) who married Sir Cuthbert Edgar Peek in 1884, and Marian (1869-1932) who married James Beethom Whitehead in 1893. The agreement stated that the sisters should write to each other every alternate Sunday and that this would be a private correspondence between the sisters, with no letters shown to anyone else without the consent of the writer. The first letters were written on May 24th 1896.
Level	series
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth

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