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D8760 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1714-1994
F - Family records of the extended Franklin family and the Gell family of Hopton Hall - 1714-1994
FEP - Records of Eleanor Anne Porden, first wife of Sir John Franklin - 1800-1828
6 - Travel diaries and commonplace books of Eleanor Anne Porden - 1815-1823
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Archive Reference / Library Class No.
D8760/F/FEP/6/2
Former Reference
D3311/4/3
D3311/49
Title
Commonplace book of Eleanor Anne Porden
Date
1818
Description
Comprising extracts, with some notes, from Johnstone's travels in Russia, etc, on West Prussia, Moscow; Cambrian Popular Antiquities by Peter Roberts; Account of Switzerland by A. Yosy; The Sacred Edict of China, comprising 16 maxims by the Emperor Kangxi; Expeditions to the North Pole, from the Philosophical Magazine, Apr 1818; Remarks on the Kraken, from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1818.
Identified on the inside as William Porden's, but handwriting is that of Eleanor Porden
Extent
1 volume
Level
Item
Repository
Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator
Eleanor Anne Porden, later Eleanor Franklin (1795-1825)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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