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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/42
Title	Letters from Sarah Dorothea (colloquially known as Dora) Simpkinson (née Vaughan), wife of John Nassau Simpkinson, to Eleanor Isabella Gell
Date	1851-1857
Extent	8 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
Administrative History	Sarah Dorothea (Dora) Vaughan, later Simpkinson (1823-1885) was the daughter of Reverend E.T. Vaughan, Headmaster of Harrow School. She married John Nassau Simpkinson, Assistant Master at Harrow School, on 6 December 1849 at St Martin's Church, Leicester; they had at least nine children. Simpkinson was the nephew of Lady Franklin.