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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
  - FEP - Records of Eleanor Anne Porden, first wife of Sir John Franklin - 1800-1828
    - 6 - Travel diaries and commonplace books of Eleanor Anne Porden - 1815-1823

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEP/6/1
Former Reference	D3311/17
Former Reference	D3311/34
Title	Commonplace book of Eleanor Anne Porden
Date	1815-1823
Description	Extract from "Voyages dans les Alpes", Tomes VI, VIII, by Horace-Benedict de Saussure , describing places in the Alps, mostly in French, 20 pages; extracts from "Sur la literature du Midi de l'Europe" by Jean Charles Leonard de Simonde de Sismondi, on the Northern lights and Cecco d'Ascoli, in French, c.1 page; extract from Mathilde by Sophie Cottin, in French, c.2 pages; 2 sets of verses in English, 1 page; poem on surnames from the New Monthly Magazine for July 1823, 3 pages; poem entitled "The burial of Sir John Moore who fell at the Bttle of Corunna, in Spain, in 1809" by Charles Wolfe, 2 pages; poem entitled "Song of the Modern Greek Bard, Lord Byron, from the Literary Gazette, Aug 1821, 5 pages; at end of book, 3 pages, comprising quotation from Thaddeus of Warsaw, further extracts in French from Mathilde, lines from "Black Dwarf"and "Old Mortality" by Sir Walter Scott, quotation from "Eloge de Werner" by Georges Cuvier.
Extent	1 volume
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Eleanor Anne Porden, later Eleanor Franklin (1795-1825)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth

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