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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D258/50/138
TitlePersonal letter from Sir William Gell to Mrs Georgiana Gell, Milan. From Naples, Her friend Hussein, the Bey of Algiers, is quietly lodged in Naples. Has read `Anne of Gierstein'. Gell guesses Philip Gell has been taken prisoner before the fall of Algiers and put to an ignominious end by the Bedouins, with the old painter as his Lieutenant. Signed `Diego Polpito' 24 Aug
Date1831
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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Gell; Sir; William (1777-1836); Diplomat and antiquarian of Hopton.
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