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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/FEG/1/49/4
Former ReferenceD3311/122/25
TitleLetter from Rosalind E. Beaufort to Eleanor Isabella Gell, including on the false news about Sir John Franklin having been seen
Date6 Oct 1849
DescriptionOn her father still having no doubts about the story concerning the ships from the natives but having no belief in clairvoyance. Asks whether Sir Francis Simpkinson has any influence or interest at Gray's Inn in the appointment of a morning preacher there, and if so, whether Eleanor could ask if he would have any [influence] for her brother Augustus, anxious to become a candidate, now that the death of the Bishop of Norwich has meant a blow to hopes of preferment
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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
Indigenous populations

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Beaufort; Rosalind Elizabeth (1820-1904)
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