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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D258/50/148
TitlePersonal letter from Sir William Gell to Mrs Georgiana Gell. From Naples. Gell very much the fashion now his house has been altered [includes sketch]. Cost, £100, paid by Lord de Ros. Has had present of organ from Sir Charles Monck. Gell has been employed by Dilettanti to make observations in Italy and they are going to engrave his maps in England; project may now be ended because of lack of money. Visits to Opera. Lady Coventry has taken to ass-riding for health and bathes in newly discovered mineral hot spring halfway to Pozzuoli. [Includes sketch of his coach]. Thanks for kind offer of book
Date1831
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
FormatDocument
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Gell; Sir; William (1777-1836); Diplomat and antiquarian of Hopton.
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