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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/FEG/1/49/3
Former ReferenceD3311/121/1
TitleLetter from Rosalind E. Beaufort to Eleanor Isabella Gell, including false news about the reported safety of Sir John Franklin
Date4 Oct 1849
DescriptionIncluding congratulating her on the good news which came to them by the "Electric Telegraph", her father being overpowered with happiness, the news being that "Sir John Franklin and Sir James Ross's ships frozen in Prince Regent's Inlet. Believe all safe. This got from the Natives. Will send further particulars by post."
Extent1 sheet
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderRosalind E. Beaufort
Sender Location19 Waterloo Crescent, Dover
RecipientEleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient LocationNo address
Archive CreatorEleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
TermEthnic groups

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