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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/GPL/1/6/9
Former Reference	D3311/26/2
Former Reference	D3311/131
Title	Letter from J.E.C. Bodley to Philip Lyttelton Gell, on Eleanor Anne Porden being a Corresponding Member of the Institute of France
Date	30 Nov 1922
Description	In response to a letter by her in the Morning Post a few weeks on Sir John Franklin's wife; Bodley is himself a Corresponding Member of the Institute of France for 20 yaers, and there is currently agitation in the Institute about inviting a woman to speak to the annual meeting; he has never seen or heard mention of a woman being elected a member; he would be grateful if he could give full particulars; his being reminded of Gell's distinguished grandfather by the death of someone he used to see on Brighton Front who was one of the naval surgeons on one of the Franklin search expeditions, Inspector General Toms (lived to be 97); he requests her opinion on the climate in Devon, given that several of friends from that area prefer to live in the south of France.
Extent	1 sheet
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Sender	J.E.C. Bodley
Sender Location	Hatchlands, Cuckfield, Sussex
Recipient	Philip Lyttelton Gell
Recipient Location	No address
Archive Creator	Philip Lyttelton Gell (1852-1926)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth

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