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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D3287/13 |
| Title | Box 13 - 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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