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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/FEG/1/2/1
Former ReferenceD3287/31/8
TitleLetter from Jane Griffin to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, just before Jane's marriage to Sir John Franklin
Date[Sep 1828]
DescriptionLady Franklin had brought a letter to her from Mrs Kay, and she thinks Eleanor would like one from herself now: she wishes Eleanor to think of her, as she loves Eleanor very much: she hopes Eleanor will come to see her and Papa and that they will be happy together. She and her Papa have been a very long way across the sea on a ship: she sends Eleanor and Kitty [Catherine Cracroft], two pairs of shoes and two dolls, guessing she knows what the latter are made of. Love to Mama [Isabella Cracroft], Kitty and all the cousins: she asks when Tom might go to school.
Sent while she and John Franklin were visiting the continent before their marriage on 5 Nov 1828. [Roderic Owen in "The Fate of Franklin" refers to Jane and Franklin purchasing the shoes and dolls in Leyden in the Netherlands, before their arrival home in October]
Extent1 sheet
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
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SenderJane Griffin
Sender LocationNo address
RecipientEleanor Isabella Franklin
Recipient LocationBrighton
Archive CreatorEleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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