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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D258/50/55
TitlePersonal letter from Sir William Gell to Philip Gell
Date1811
DescriptionFrom General Maitland's Manderston, Duns, North Britain. Offers Philip 2 beautiful Turkish or Persian greyhound puppies, 3 months old. Gell has been appointed by the Dilettanti to go to Ionia to examine Aphrodisias, Miletus, Laodicea, Myindus, Patara, etc and to make another volume to his Ionian antiquities. Has £1000 and a painter to begin with, his expenses paid, and £50 a month besides the honour. Puzzled to find architectural painter. King [George III] is in no danger as long as he does not break a blood vessel in his paroxysms
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RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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