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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/1
Title	Letters from Sir John Franklin to his daughter Eleanor Isabella Franklin
Date	1831-1845
Description	John Franklin was frequently away from his daughter Eleanor as a consequence of his career as a naval officer. The first seven letters relate to the time when he was on a tour of duty in the Mediterranean in 1831-1833, during which time Eleanor was brought up with the family of Franklin's sister, Isabella Cracroft, with whom she seems to have remained even after Franklin's return to England. She became fully part of the Franklin family unit when they all travelled to Tasmania in 1836 when Franklin became Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land. He wrote to her in Hobart during the times he was absent visiting other parts of the island. The last two letters sent to her when he was making his way north west on his last Arctic expedition in 1845.
Extent	16 items
Level	SubSeries
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Term	Naval personnel
	Navy officers
	Sailors