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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
      - 22 - Letters from cousin Emma Cracroft to Eleanor Isabella Franklin later Gell - 1836-1850

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/22/4
Former Reference	D3287/31/3/31-33
Title	Letter from Emma Cracroft to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Gell, including reference to John Philip Gell applying for the Mastership or Rugby School: with envelope
Date	3 Dec 1849
Description	Letter (2 sheets) only dated Saturday: 3 Dec 1849 added in pencil. Envelope postmarked for 4 Dec 1849, including writing in inside from"C.C." [Catherine Cracroft]
Extent	3 pieces
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Sender	Emma Cracroft
Sender Location	No address
Recipient	Eleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient Location	16 Upper Seymour Street, Portman Square [London]
Archive Creator	Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Term	Elections
Transcript or Index	Emma Cracroft (in pencil) Dec 3 1849 (in pencil) Saturday My dearest Eleanor As Emma tells me you are expecting to hear from one of us – you shall not wait any longer for a letter from me, for I believe it is a long time since I wrote to you. How anxiously you must be awaiting the decision of the 17th of this month upon which Mr Gell’s election to the Rugby Mastership depends. If he does not obtain it, I do hope he will not have to wait long before he gets some other preferment for I think you must be anxious to have something settled in the way of work. Emma reports well of your looks so I hope you have not felt the excessive cold of the last few days as you generally do. Catherine says it freezes up all her faculties – but she is nevertheless very well and tho’ she goes out in all weather never seems to suffer from it. She is decidedly stronger than she has been for a long time. She has had an invitation to spend a long time with the Ponsonby Moores, who have taken a house in Devonshire, near Teignmouth. Augusta says she will take no refusal from Catherine so we hope she will go to them sometime next month, and once there I do not expect we shall see her again for some time as they insist upon a long visit. After having lived so many years in Italy, I cannot think they will find a residence in England an agreable change and we quite think they will soon tire of it and wish to return. General and Mrs Gardiner have I suppose left England by this time. Catherine and I were to have gone to Portsmouth this week but our visit is put off for a little time. Portsmouth is a new place to both of us for we have never yet managed to get there, so I think our visit will be a pleasant one and we have many friends there whom we shall be glad to see again. I suppose we must give up all idea of seeing Sophy at Christmas. We certainly hoped that she would have been able to leave Aunt for a week at that time. It is such a long time since we have seen her, of course s long as she is of use and a comfort to Aunt one would not wish her to leave her, but we had hoped she might have been spared for a few days at Christmas. Do you ever see anything of the Welds? Emily Sellwood writes that Anne is very far from well, so I fear she must be very delicate. You know that the Sellwoods have established themselves at Eastbourne in their own house. I do not think they seem quite to like the place, but there must be some drawback to every place. Monday I was prevented from finishing my letter on Saturday as I wished to have done. We hear that a Committee of Arctic Authorities is to meet today so I hope they will at once settle upon what further measures are to be taken for searching for our Expedition. We shall be anxious to hear the result of their deliberations from Sophy. If you see Emma before she leaves town, give her my love and tell her I will write to her at Leicester. Mama and Catherine join me in love and believe me dearest Eleanor Your very affectionate Emma Cracroft This ink has a somewhat sickly complexion. Envelope: Paid Mrs John Gell 16 Upper Seymour Street Portman Square Postmarked Winchester 4 DE 1849 Inside envelope: I will soon write to you. Please not to pay the 1/8 d for my Missy [?missionary] Jnals [?Journals] into Sophy’s hands but when convenient will you send me the money in stamps: Y. affecte. E.C.

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