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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D258/50/14
TitlePersonal letter from Sir William Gell to his mother, Mrs Blore from Ryde, Isle of Wight. Has been waiting for arrival of a convoy for the Mediterranean which has now reached Spithead. Mr Baker of Hertfordshire and Gell intend going on board the Prevoyante, a large ship carrying stores for Malta and the fleet of Lord Nelson. If they meet the Spanish plate ships in the way, they shall perhaps make some prize money to pay their expenses. Refers to good notice for his Troad in the Critical Review, but must wait until he gets his desserts from the Edinburgh Review which will not spare a book printed on the wrong side of the Tweed. `I hope if I am fortunate enough to succeed this time to make a very extensive collection of materials for other works of a similar nature, not but that I have at least 100 times more than the documents which supplied the Troad now in England, but they may be very much perfected by certain geographic sketches which I omitted during my last excursion from the excessive heat and on which account I am endeavouring to get into the Morea before the winter is over'. She should write to him at the English Consul's at Patras via Constantinople or the English Consul at Athens or put under cover to Mr Arbuthnot `the Ambassador Extra and Plenipo.'
4 Nov
Date1804
Extent1 volume
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorGell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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Gell; Sir; William (1777-1836); Diplomat and antiquarian of Hopton.
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