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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/FEG/1/15/24 |
| Former Reference | D3287/32/4/13 |
| Title | Letter from Hannah Booth to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell, while Eleanor is on holiday in Jersey, including reference to hopes for McClintock's expedition |
| Date | 27 Aug 1858 |
| Description | Aunt looks back with pleasure at place where Eleanor is currently staying [St Brelade, Jersey]; "heavy sorrow" there but received "many blessings and kindness"; parents of Rollways live at Gunby, knows them well; father is a solicitor at Spilsby, magistrates' clerk for Lindsey; elder son is barrister living at Richmond; other son is in Army or soon to be; where Eleanor is staying is the place where Sir William Hooker's daughter died and was buried, at St Brelade's; Mary knew her; beauty of bays; visited 13 or 14 years ago; new houses do not always improve romantic scenery; nephew Willingham seriously ill with "paralysis and softening of the brain" and is dying; Catharine and Drummond have been to see him at Halton; his parents are already deceased and so spared seeing Willingham like this; will meet them in heaven; Aunt's health improved since being here; children and grandchildren are well; Sir John Richardson and Beatrice are there; sends kind regards; long letter from Mary Price, sends her love; will see the letter when they meet; McClintock "baffled like all the rest", however, he "does not despair but sails on his search"; hopes that God will show "when and how the awful separation from this world took place". |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
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| Sender | Hannah Booth |
| Sender Location | Friskney Vicarage |
| Recipient | Eleanor Isabella Gell |
| Recipient Location | [St Brelade, Jersey] |
| Archive Creator | Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860) |
| Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
| Format | Document |
| Term | Franklin Expedition (1845) |