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D8760 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1714-1994
- F - Family records of the extended Franklin family and the Gell family of Hopton Hall - 1714-1994
  - FEG - Records of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin, daughter of Sir John and Eleanor Franklin and wife of Reverend John Philip Gell - 1828-[early 20th cent]
    - 1 - Correspondence of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin - 1828-1859
      - 42 - Letters from Sarah Dorothea (colloquially known as Dora) Simpkinson (née Vaughan), wife of John Nassau Simpkinson, to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1851-1857

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/42/8
Former Reference	D3287/31/2
Title	Letter from Dora Simpkinson to Eleanor Isabella Gell
Date	10 Mar [1857]
Description	Thanks for sympathy for death of her sister, which Eleanor heard about through Emma and Louisa; her complaint was consumption. Paper black-edged. Dated Tuesday 10 March [Dora's sister Lucy Agnes Vaughan died on 3 Mar 1857]
Extent	2 sheets
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
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Sender	Dora Simpkinson
Sender Location	Brington
Recipient	Eleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient Location	No address
Archive Creator	Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth

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