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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
      - 29 - Letters from Emily Tennyson (née Sellwood) to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1850

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/29/1
Former Reference	D3287/31/9/18
Title	Letter from Emily Tennyson to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Gell, written during Emily's honeymoon with the poet Alfred Tennyson
Date	2 Aug [1850]
Description	Letter only dated 2 Aug, but the year 1850 has been added in pencil.
Extent	1 sheet
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Sender	Emily Tennyson
Sender Location	Tent Lodge, Coniston Water, Ambleside
Recipient	Eleanor Isabella Gell
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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Transcript or Index	Lady Tennyson 1850 (in pencil) Tent Lodge Coniston Water Ambleside August 2nd My dear Eleanor Your kind note was sent to me here and I beg you to accept my best thanks for all your good wishes. In very truth had the ideal been the absolute standard for the real, I know well I should never have been Alfred’s wife. Shall I rather think it is a veil instead? Or would it not be better still to feel it neither but only some far off goal to which there is hope of attaining in another life if not this, towards which I may look for help without invidious comparison. You say nothing of how you are and how baby thrives nor whether Mr Gell has returned back strong for his London duties. Yes Eleanor I am very happy and I have the comfort of hearing my Father is so likewise, though I can scarcely resist the wish it might have been with us as we had hoped rather than at Grasby. However doubtless it is all well as it is. It could be doubly ungrateful to think otherwise in the midst of such cheering reports both of Daddy and of Charles and [?]Anne My kind remembrances to your husband from Your affectionate Cousin Emily Tennyson We are in a house kindly lent us, by Mrs Marshall, one of the Miss Spring Rices who was. We have a beautiful view of the Old Man & the head of the Lake and of [?]packd jagged rock walls upon a rugged gorge from our windows.