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D8760 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1714-1994
F - Family records of the extended Franklin family and the Gell family of Hopton Hall - 1714-1994
FEG - Records of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin, daughter of Sir John and Eleanor Franklin and wife of Reverend John Philip Gell - 1828-[early 20th cent]
1 - Correspondence of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin - 1828-1859
18 - Letters from Sir John Richardson and his third wife Mary to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1848-1856
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D8760/F/FEG/1/18/4
Former Reference
D3311/57/2
Title
Letter from Sir John Richardson to Eleanor Isabella Gell, giving his opinions on the ships H.M.S. Erebus and Terror having been supposedly sighted
Date
25 Nov 1853
Description
Including references to her opinions on the drifting of the Erebus and Terror out of their anchorage and their desertion by the crews matching his own, the examples provided by other ships, and Eskimo account of ship masts, it being unlikely that the ships' crews would not have communicated with the Eskimos, who were aware of the search
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1 sheet
Level
Item
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
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Sender
John Richardson
Sender Location
Haslar Hospital, Gosport
Recipient
Eleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient Location
No address
Archive Creator
Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Format
Document
Term
Inuit
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Franklin Expedition (1845)
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HMS Erebus; 1826-1848; Royal Navy ship
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