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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D8760/F/FEG/2/3
Former Reference
D3287/31/14/3
Title
Diary of Eleanor Isabella Franklin, relating to her time in Australia, Van Diemen's Land [now Tasmania] and England
Date
13 Dec 1840-20 Mar 1850
Description
Covering 13 Dec 1840 - 19 Jan 1841, relating to travels in South Australia; 20 Feb - 10 Jun 1840, in Van Diemen's Land; 9 Dec 1843 - 20 Mar 1850 on return from Australia and life in England (entries very infrequent); from the back, upside down, are assorted medicinal recipes, 1848-1853, with three landscape sketches in pencil, 21 Jan 1841.
Extent
1 volume
Level
Item
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Format
Artwork
Document
Term
Diaries
Travel abroad
Travel
Colonialism
British Empire
Places
Place (click for further details)
Type
Australia
Tasmania
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