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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/52/11
Former Reference	D3287/32/1/27
Title	Letter from Maria Cox to Eleanor Isabella Gell, including references to John Philip Gell's childhood and Florence Nightingale's response to the death at Scutari of a son of one of Florence's servants
Date	1 May 1855
Description	Gratified at Eleanor's note thanking her for gift to her little girl; remembers Gell at the age his children were then and at all stages of childhood, including his old haunts at Rugby; she has been at Spondon where her niece, Mrs William Cox, read a most feeling letter from Miss Nightingale to one of their servants, whose son had died of fever at Scutari, whose Miss N. and her nurse had attended, administering port wine and arrow root medicine and having a chaplain attendance, which letter was a reassurance to the parents
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Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
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Sender	Maria Cox
Sender Location	Derby
Recipient	Eleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient Location	No address
Archive Creator	Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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