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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/FEG/1/15/10
Former ReferenceD3287/32/4/7
TitleLetter from Hannah Booth to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell, on search expeditions, including on voluntary funding by Lady Franklin and colonists of Tasmania
Date15 Mar 1853
DescriptionWider family is scattered; 'Isabel' is going out, privately funded, to Behring's Straits, taking supplies to searchers; ought to be Government funded; £500 sent by colonists of Van Diemen's land to help pay for search; hopes this year will have news; Frank Simpkinson did not destroy the Bond "for his own sake"; Lady Franklin unlikely to be able to put it to use for funding, has just voluntary funding and own monies; has received a letter from Emma, who intends to live with Mr Evans' family in Wales; son spending few days in London in April; Mary Anne and two grand-daughters coming; uncle is well; hopes that Eleanor, husband and "my darling babies" likewise; has invited Emma to come.
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LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderHannah Booth
Sender Location6 Tottenham Place [Clifton]
RecipientEleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient LocationNo address
Archive CreatorEleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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