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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/FEG/1/15/18 |
| Former Reference | D3311/31/17 |
| Title | Letter from Hannah Booth to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell, thanking her for sympathy on the death of her husband, John Booth |
| Date | 25 Oct 1854 |
| Description | Death of Hannah Booth's husband; grateful for sympathy of niece and husband; has found strength in God; deceased husband's good Christian life; communication today from niece, also The Times yesterday to her son, news of the relics have given her some comfort that her brother is no longer suffering, at peace with God along with her husband, and the family's anxiety about where he might be is "now set at rest"; brother and husband both "well prepared" for heaven; love to niece and husband. |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
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| Sender | Hannah Booth |
| Sender Location | No address |
| Recipient | Eleanor Isabella Gell |
| Recipient Location | No address |
| Archive Creator | Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860) |
| Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |