Description | Aunt's poor health, refers to Eleanor's description of proclamation about the Queen in Hobart, not as splendid as in England, omission of champion exhibition and banquet from Coronation pageantry: cousin witnessed the Grand Procession, bells ringing in the countryside, plum cake for children, money for parents; description of fire in Government outbuildings, and comments on poisonous snakes and Jackass-songster; questions about naming of geographical features after friends and family; birthday wishes for Eleanor and her father, family illness, stormy and bad weather throughout England and Europe for the last year, also in Van Diemen's Land [now Tasmania]; Emily Sellwood and father travelled to Berkshire: Emily, like Lady Franklin, needs excitement; Anne Sellwood has been in Guernsey, Emily will be "left to visit the Tennyson family" at Beech Hall near London; Aunt Evans has arrived safely in England, has had a baby, Mary has got married. Difficult handwriting to read |
Recipient | Eleanor Isabella Franklin |
Recipient Location | Government House, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land |