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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D258/50/12 |
| Title | Booklet `Presented to G A Gell by W Gell being by him purchased from Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby of Llangollen [the Ladies of Llangollen] for an old song' |
| Date | nd early 19th cent |
| Description | Sketch of urn and flowers [by William Gell] `The Birthday Ode - a Piscatory Poem'; `Albion - a Poem': Awake my muse and let a noble rage/Adorn a Dryden's or a Pocock's page .......
So boys at school though flogg'd for ABC/Look pleased as pipers over cakes and tea/And though we prick our fingers with the briar/
We should steal gooseberries through flames or fire' |
| Level | file |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
| Copies | A digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office. |
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