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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/GPL/1/6/6
Former ReferenceD3311/45/3/2
TitleLetter from David Ross McCord to Sir Leopold McClintock, thanking him for kindness which resulted in him getting a splendid Franklin letter
Date22 Oct 1906
DescriptionHe is writing to Mr Gell to also thank him. Reference in the letter to Franklin dining with Garry, Governor of the Hudson Bay Co. He then quotes from notebooks about the poet Tennyson (who got married to Franklin's niece, Miss Sellwood), the writing of his verse, "That True North" and the Canadian nation. He asks Sir Leopold to send on the letter to Mr Gell.
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LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderDavid Ross McCord
Sender LocationTemple Grove, Montreal
RecipientPhilip Lyttelton Gell
Recipient LocationHopton Hall
Archive CreatorPhilip Lyttelton Gell (1852-1926)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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