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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D258/50/137
Title	Personal letter from Sir William Gell to Philip Gell
Date	24 ?Jun 1830
Description	From Naples. Mr Morier, the author of the Hadgi Baba, comes to ask Gell to take him to Mr Hill's the Minister. `The death of Princess Charlotte who had promised me great things was a fatal business for me'. Has just heard that his new work on Pompeii is coming out in November. Gell's map of Greece has cost Cambridge University £225 to engrave; the senior Fellow of Trinity, Mr Browne, tells him it costs 14 shillings. Gell is now making another work on the paintings of Pompeii `which will be beautiful'. Has met a Mr Clay of Crich - such a buck - not at all compatible with that long line of limekilns on a bare hill which Gell remembers from his youth.
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Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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