| Description | Lady Franklin had brought a letter to her from Mrs Kay, and she thinks Eleanor would like one from herself now: she wishes Eleanor to think of her, as she loves Eleanor very much: she hopes Eleanor will come to see her and Papa and that they will be happy together. She and her Papa have been a very long way across the sea on a ship: she sends Eleanor and Kitty [Catherine Cracroft], two pairs of shoes and two dolls, guessing she knows what the latter are made of. Love to Mama [Isabella Cracroft], Kitty and all the cousins: she asks when Tom might go to school.
Sent while she and John Franklin were visiting the continent before their marriage on 5 Nov 1828. [Roderic Owen in "The Fate of Franklin" refers to Jane and Franklin purchasing the shoes and dolls in Leyden in the Netherlands, before their arrival home in October] |
| Recipient | Eleanor Isabella Franklin |