| Description | She wants Eleanor to put forward Sir John's case with Mr Simpkinson, before the letter to Lord S. [Stanley] goes; if he does not think it right for Sir J. to announce at once his intention of publishing rather than stopping short with telling him not to send to Sir E. Wilmot, he will no doubt agree that the announcement should be made at the same time as the expression of dissatisfaction, but Eleanor may ask him whether it does not shut out all possibility of reconciliation with Lord S. and then put the case hypothetcially if Dr. Buckland should again try to interest Sir R. Peel on Sir John's behalf; Lady Jane hopes Mr Simpkinson's answer will be the same, that an open declaration of his intentions would facilitate an amicable adjustment; it has been a full week since her father wrote to Dr Buckland saying he saw no use in sending the papers to Peel, so Buckland would conclude that the "thing is already done"; Lady Jane can hardly persuade Sir John from sending off the letter first thing in the morning, so eager is he to get it off. If a letter comes from Aunt Fanny, she is to bring it up to her at once.
Letter is undated, but must have been written not too long after the Franklins arrived back in England [June 1844] |
| Recipient | Eleanor Isabella Franklin |