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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D258/50/27
TitlePersonal letter from Sir William Gell to Philip Gell `Dear brother': Family matters. `I have directed Jackson to get you a Barclay handkerchief' Describes pugilists at Bristol; James Belcher's court appearance put off until October at Kingston Fight that day between 'Richman the black and Maddox'. Asks whether Staffordshire or Cheshire factories will make silk handkerchiefs to a pattern as Gell wants to 'invent a Moorish handkerchief'
Date11 Aug 1809
Levelfile
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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TermBoxing
Black peoples
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Gell; Sir; William (1777-1836); Diplomat and antiquarian of Hopton.
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