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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/FEG/1/18/5 |
| Former Reference | D3311/56/1/1 |
| Title | Letter from Sir John Richardson to Eleanor Isabella Gell, advising her with regard to the Admiralty's policy on search expeditions |
| Date | 19 Jan 1854 |
| Description | Advising her to accept what the Admiralty makes public what it decides to do and to act under proper legal advice; he suggests Mr Tilney, one of the Masters in Chancery, an intimate friend of her father's. There is a pencil note in later hand at the top saying the letter refers to the necessity of preventing Lady Franklin from spending money in the search for Sir John Franklin, which if he were dead, would be the property of his daughter. |
| Extent | 1 sheet |
| Level | Item |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Sender | John Richardson |
| Sender Location | Haslar Hospital, Gosport |
| Recipient | Eleanor Isabella Gell |
| Recipient Location | No address |
| Archive Creator | Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860) |
| Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |