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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/FLJ/3/1
Former ReferenceD3311/204/2
TitleNewspaper cutting from "The Times", printing letters from Jane Franklin and Henry Willingham Gell refuting the claims of the friends of the late Robert M'Clure that he was "The Discoverer of the North-West Passage"
Date[28 Oct 1873]
DescriptionLetters both written 27 Oct; M'Clure died 17 Oct 1873. [Published in "The Times" on 28 Oct 1873.]
Extent1 item
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorJane Griffin later Lady Franklin (1791-1875)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
TermFranklin Expedition (1845)

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M'Clure; Sir; Robert John Le Mesurier (1807-1873); naval officer and explorer
Franklin; Lady; Jane (1791-1875); second wife of Sir John Franklin, campaigner and traveller
Gell; Henry Willingham (1856-1942); doctor and physician
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