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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/FEG/1/33/3 |
| Former Reference | D3287/32/1/7 |
| Title | Letter from Sarah Henrietta Kay to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell, mainly on family news, including on Sarah Henrietta not wanting a servant woman of colour |
| Date | 16 Nov 1856 |
| Description | Thanks for trouble taken but she has got a cook who came last week and "we should not like to have a woman of colour about us, as our servant in that place is a good deal seen"; she wishes she had been told how Lady Simpkinson was, even though Emily had been to Christ's Hospital; alarm for Mary Anne over Franklin, who had a fever attack attended by delirium but was better now if weak and unable to leave his bed; Mary Kendall was also ill and gone to friends in Southampton for change of air and to be watched by their medical friend. |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Sender | Sarah Henrietta Kay |
| Sender Location | Westbourne Park Villas |
| Recipient | Eleanor Isabella Gell |
| Recipient Location | No address |
| Archive Creator | Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860) |
| Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
| Copies | A digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
| Term | Racial discrimination |
| Ethnic groups |