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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/FEG/1/15/24
Former ReferenceD3287/32/4/13
TitleLetter from Hannah Booth to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell, while Eleanor is on holiday in Jersey, including reference to hopes for McClintock's expedition
Date27 Aug 1858
DescriptionAunt looks back with pleasure at place where Eleanor is currently staying [St Brelade, Jersey]; "heavy sorrow" there but received "many blessings and kindness"; parents of Rollways live at Gunby, knows them well; father is a solicitor at Spilsby, magistrates' clerk for Lindsey; elder son is barrister living at Richmond; other son is in Army or soon to be; where Eleanor is staying is the place where Sir William Hooker's daughter died and was buried, at St Brelade's; Mary knew her; beauty of bays; visited 13 or 14 years ago; new houses do not always improve romantic scenery; nephew Willingham seriously ill with "paralysis and softening of the brain" and is dying; Catharine and Drummond have been to see him at Halton; his parents are already deceased and so spared seeing Willingham like this; will meet them in heaven; Aunt's health improved since being here; children and grandchildren are well; Sir John Richardson and Beatrice are there; sends kind regards; long letter from Mary Price, sends her love; will see the letter when they meet; McClintock "baffled like all the rest", however, he "does not despair but sails on his search"; hopes that God will show "when and how the awful separation from this world took place".
Extent1 sheet
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderHannah Booth
Sender LocationFriskney Vicarage
RecipientEleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient Location[St Brelade, Jersey]
Archive CreatorEleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
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