Description | Letter has initial part of the letter cut away: Miss Kaye is sending the Attic Chest, with the key to it; she regards the papers as being only of interest as relics, and although they are clever, they would only be considered as curiosities by literary people today, more than 60 years later; the box includes copies of some of her aunt's poems and a copy of a botannical work in sheets; her own future descendants will have no interest in them; includes other references are to a bazaar in unknown cause, towards which Miss Kaye gave £1 to Alice [sister of the letter's recipient], health of an unidentified person, query about Henry coming home [brother of recipient] and meeting with father [J.P. Gell]. The envelope explains that the sender was her grandmother was the wife Sir John Franklin and also the daughter of William Porden, and that the Attic Chest was being given to Philip Lyttelton Gell. |
Sender Location | Trant Road, Tunbridge Wells [Kent] |