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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/49/3
Former Reference	D3311/121/1
Title	Letter from Rosalind E. Beaufort to Eleanor Isabella Gell, including false news about the reported safety of Sir John Franklin
Date	4 Oct 1849
Description	Including congratulating her on the good news which came to them by the "Electric Telegraph", her father being overpowered with happiness, the news being that "Sir John Franklin and Sir James Ross's ships frozen in Prince Regent's Inlet. Believe all safe. This got from the Natives. Will send further particulars by post."
Extent	1 sheet
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
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Sender	Rosalind E. Beaufort
Sender Location	19 Waterloo Crescent, Dover
Recipient	Eleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient Location	No address
Archive Creator	Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Format	Document
Term	Ethnic groups
Term	Franklin Expedition (1845)

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