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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D8760/F/FEG/1/8/4
Former Reference
D3287/32/1/18
Title
First page of letter from Elizabeth Gell to her sister-in-law Eleanor Isabella Gell, following the announcement on the presumed deaths of Sir John Franklin and his men
Date
27 Jan [1854]
Description
Sympathy over distress following decision of the Admiralty; hope that her father may have long been at rest and spared suffering feared by his friends; hope that they stay away from the bishopric of Canterbury Settlement.
Only dated Friday 27 Jan, and although 1851 or 1852 have been suggested in pencil, it is much more likely to be 1854, when the Admiralty announced the expedition men were to be taken from the payroll, thereby considering them effectively no longer alive.
Extent
1 sheet
Level
Item
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Sender
Elizabeth Gell
Sender Location
No address
Recipient
Eleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient Location
No address
Archive Creator
Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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