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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/FEG/1/33/3
Former ReferenceD3287/32/1/7
TitleLetter from Sarah Henrietta Kay to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell, mainly on family news, including on Sarah Henrietta not wanting a servant woman of colour
Date16 Nov 1856
DescriptionThanks for trouble taken but she has got a cook who came last week and "we should not like to have a woman of colour about us, as our servant in that place is a good deal seen"; she wishes she had been told how Lady Simpkinson was, even though Emily had been to Christ's Hospital; alarm for Mary Anne over Franklin, who had a fever attack attended by delirium but was better now if weak and unable to leave his bed; Mary Kendall was also ill and gone to friends in Southampton for change of air and to be watched by their medical friend.
Extent1 sheet
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderSarah Henrietta Kay
Sender LocationWestbourne Park Villas
RecipientEleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient LocationNo address
Archive CreatorEleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
CopiesA digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
TermRacial discrimination
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