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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/FEG/1/49/5 |
| Former Reference | D3287/31/5 |
| Title | Letter from Rosalind E. Beaufort to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on the failure of an experiment to use balloon to send messages, with slip of paper sent up with balloon with request for it to be forwarded to the Admiralty by post |
| Date | 30-31 Jan 1850 |
| Description | Sending her the first three volumes of Archdeacon Manning's sermons; her father's response not discouraging Eleanor from writing to thank Sir James Baring; also sending her one of the papers her father brought home from one of the trial balloons sent off that day from the Admiralty, which failed and came down in three hours in Rotherhithe instead of a fortnight's time in Germany, so they had to pay the 3 guineas reward. The slip is dated 30 Jan 1850; the letter is only dated Thursday night, but the context makes the letter 31 Jan 1850. |
| Extent | 2 items |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
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| Sender | Rosalind E. Beaufort |
| 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 |
| Format | Document |
| Term | Franklin Expedition (1845) |
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