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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/GHW/1/3/6
Former ReferenceD3311/83/64
TitleCopy of letter by John Philip Gell to his prospective legal advisor E.J. Rickards to renew claim to the Phillips portrait exhibited in the Victorian exhibition at the New Gallery
Date17 Dec 1891
DescriptionDetails of Gell's claim to the Phillip's portrait of Sir John Franklin (1824) with details of possible evidence as proof. Claims that portrait was not sold, should have passed to his late wife, Franklin's only issue, and to their son Philip Lyttleton Gell of Langley Lodge, Oxford.
Extent1 sheet
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderJohn Philip Gell
Sender LocationBuxted Rectory, Sussex
RecipientE.J. Rickards
Recipient Location3 Crown Court, Old Broad Street
Archive CreatorHenry Willingham Gell (1856-1942)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth

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