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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D258/50/144 |
| Title | Personal letter from Sir William Gell to Philip Gell, From Naples. Gell hears from his sister that Georgiana Gell laments her inability to be of any use to their son John in Milan. Comments on Mr Clay of Crich - `peace be to his ringlets'. Gell has nearly finished book for Philip which contains all the genealogy of the family. Lady Charlotte Lindsay is trying to get Gell's pension for him. Asks Philip for £100 for genealogical volume. Dodwell has inherited fortune, but afflicted with paralysis; he is coming to Naples, as are Sir Charles Monck and Lord Harrowby. Hopes that Derbyshire, being more a grazing country, is quiet and not upside down like Hampshire. Mr Thornhill's accident. New road along coast by Genoa and Sarzano. 2 Jan |
| Date | 1831 |
| Level | file |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
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