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D8760 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1714-1994
- F - Family records of the extended Franklin family and the Gell family of Hopton Hall - 1714-1994
  - FEG - Records of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin, daughter of Sir John and Eleanor Franklin and wife of Reverend John Philip Gell - 1828-[early 20th cent]
    - 1 - Correspondence of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin - 1828-1859
      - 2 - Letters from Jane, Lady Franklin (née Griffin) to her stepdaughter Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1828-1849

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/2/16
Former Reference	D3287/31/8
Title	Letter from Lady Franklin to her step-daughter Eleanor Isabella Franklin, shortly after their return to England, including on Sir John's intention of publishing his account defending his period as Governor of Van Diemen's Land [now Tasmania]
Date	[mid 1844]
Description	She wants Eleanor to put forward Sir John's case with Mr Simpkinson, before the letter to Lord S. [Stanley] goes; if he does not think it right for Sir J. to announce at once his intention of publishing rather than stopping short with telling him not to send to Sir E. Wilmot, he will no doubt agree that the announcement should be made at the same time as the expression of dissatisfaction, but Eleanor may ask him whether it does not shut out all possibility of reconciliation with Lord S. and then put the case hypothetcially if Dr. Buckland should again try to interest Sir R. Peel on Sir John's behalf; Lady Jane hopes Mr Simpkinson's answer will be the same, that an open declaration of his intentions would facilitate an amicable adjustment; it has been a full week since her father wrote to Dr Buckland saying he saw no use in sending the papers to Peel, so Buckland would conclude that the "thing is already done"; Lady Jane can hardly persuade Sir John from sending off the letter first thing in the morning, so eager is he to get it off. If a letter comes from Aunt Fanny, she is to bring it up to her at once. Letter is undated, but must have been written not too long after the Franklins arrived back in England [June 1844]
Extent	1 sheet
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Sender	Jane Franklin
Sender Location	Not known
Recipient	Eleanor Isabella Franklin
Recipient Location	No address
Archive Creator	Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth

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