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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/GFK/1/3/1
Former Reference	D3287/26/21/21
Title	Letter from John Philip Gell to his brother Frederick Gell, during John's first year in Van Diemen's Land [now Tasmania]
Date	10 Sep 1840
Description	Postmarked Cambridge 19 Feb 1841. Including references to teaching boys who were sharp enough but sadly backward, Council debate on Christ's College, his servant John Gordon, and problems with servants in general in Van Diemen's Land
Extent	1 item
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
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Sender	John Philip Gell
Sender Location	Hobart
Recipient	Frederick Gell
Recipient Location	Trinity College, Cambridge
Archive Creator	Frederick Gell (1820-1902)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Term	British Empire
	Colonialism
	Letters (documents)