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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FKA/1/1
Title	Letters from John Franklin to his sister-in-law Sarah Henrietta Kay
Date	1825-1833
Description	The letters were written from just prior to the death of Franklin's first wife, Eleanor Anne, on 22 Feb 1825 to his time on tour of duty in the Meditrerranean in 1833. Sarah Henrietta Kay nursed Eleanor during her final illness, together with Franklin's sister, Hannah Booth and her daughter Mary Booth. Franklin does not seem to have particularly liked his sister-in-law, whom he thought a meddling gossip.
Extent	30 items
Level	SubSeries
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Kay family of London
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Related Material	For three letters to Franklin from Hannah Booth on which Sarah Henrietta Kay has also written passages, Feb-Mar 1825, see D8760/FSJ/1/7/1-2, 5
Term	Naval personnel
	Navy officers
	Sailors