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D258 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1200-1905
- 50 - SIR WILLIAM GELL (1777-1836)

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D258/50/4
Title	Personal letter from Sir William Gell to `Rural nymph' [Miss Mary Nicholas] `O divine Cartismandua'
Date	1801
Description	Gell describes journey to Birmingham from Ashbourne which took only four hours; `I could not escape the patent window and the stained glass manufactories'. Travelled on to Worcester that night and then to Hereford to hear music in the Cathedral. Bored there by a Col Heathcote of Littleover. Gell now at Abergavenny where people are `all in the first style of fashion - gypsy hats and go without suppers', but intends to visit Bath which is 52 miles distant. Has ordered a pair of blue pantaloons and has bought `a book of the Swiss lakes' at Hereford. He is dining at Robert Williams of Crickhowell, but is `compleatly miserable'. His mother says at Hopton `letters are not held as sacred things'; describes her as meek, patient and resigned, `easy prey to any designing person' [inserts sketch of dancing skeleton]. [Postmark: Abergavenny]
Level	file
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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Gell; Sir; William (1777-1836); Diplomat and antiquarian of Hopton.

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