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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D258/50/12
Title	Booklet `Presented to G A Gell by W Gell being by him purchased from Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby of Llangollen [the Ladies of Llangollen] for an old song'
Date	nd early 19th cent
Description	Sketch of urn and flowers [by William Gell] `The Birthday Ode - a Piscatory Poem'; `Albion - a Poem': Awake my muse and let a noble rage/Adorn a Dryden's or a Pocock's page ....... So boys at school though flogg'd for ABC/Look pleased as pipers over cakes and tea/And though we prick our fingers with the briar/ We should steal gooseberries through flames or fire'
Level	file
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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