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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/FSJ/1/7/1 |
| Former Reference | D3311/11/4 |
| Title | Letter from Hannah Booth and her sister-in-law Sarah Henrietta Kay to John Franklin on the health of his wife Eleanor |
| Date | 14 Feb 1825 |
| Description | Part missing at top of second page |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Sender | Hannah Booth and Sarah Henrietta Kay |
| Sender Location | 55 Devonshire Street |
| Recipient | John Franklin |
| Recipient Location | c/o Thomas Langton, esquire, Liverpool |
| Archive Creator | Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) |
| Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
| Transcript or Index | 55 Devonshire Street
4 o’clock
My dear brother,
I am sure it will afford you the highest gratification to be assured of your dear wife’s great composure and quiet she appears to be in, after you had been gone a short time she seemed to doze and sleep comfortably without those shocks and moans, about one o’clock she sent for me to read a prayer so I immediately went and knelt down and offered up our prayer together, concluding with the Lords Prayer after which she sank into forgetfulness between two and three she talked of you and said “it was much worse in anticipation than reality, she was thankful you were gone” afterwards. I read to her some time then came Dr Thompson, he found her infinitely better than he ever expected, her pulse tolerably steady and every thing going quite right. She saw Baby and seemed pleased with her little tricks, she has a little more irritability perhaps than she had in the morning but no increase of any consequence. Her nurse is come and I left her and I left her enquiring after some of her nurse’s things to scribble the true statement of
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I have seen our dear invalid again. I told her I should write to you tonight, she begged her love only. And now my dear brother I shall not leave her till I see a decided change for the better and a prospect of continuing so. You will hear from me as often as I can send letters and believe it is my most constant prayer that God in his mercy will bless comfort and defend you through the dangers and trials you may be exposed to, and bring you and your party all in health and safety to your native land and that we whom God in his abundant kindness has spared to this ? may live to welcome you to her shores? All our party are very well.
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My dear Sir – I am happy to tell you my dear sister has been much as you left her. Sir H Halford was called out of town but Dr Thomson considered her much the same – he ordered one of Sir Henry’s pills which she is fearing will distress her as the medicine did yesterday but I hope the fear will be groundless- she is a little more irritable since the drowsiness subsided but has generally been the case lately when quite awake. Mr Booth has kindly given you a more particular account & we have got the woman who was to have something…
God bless you my dear Brother & protect you in all your perils & dangers. I have not time to write more than. I am your affectionate S.H. Kay qr. past 5
To Captain Franklin, R.N.
Commander of the Land Arctic Expedition
To the care of Thomas Langton, Esq.
Liverpool |
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