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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
      - 49 - Letters from the Beaufort family to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1848-1857

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/49/5
Former Reference	D3287/31/5
Title	Letter from Rosalind E. Beaufort to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on the failure of an experiment to use balloon to send messages, with slip of paper sent up with balloon with request for it to be forwarded to the Admiralty by post
Date	30-31 Jan 1850
Description	Sending her the first three volumes of Archdeacon Manning's sermons; her father's response not discouraging Eleanor from writing to thank Sir James Baring; also sending her one of the papers her father brought home from one of the trial balloons sent off that day from the Admiralty, which failed and came down in three hours in Rotherhithe instead of a fortnight's time in Germany, so they had to pay the 3 guineas reward. The slip is dated 30 Jan 1850; the letter is only dated Thursday night, but the context makes the letter 31 Jan 1850.
Extent	2 items
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Sender	Rosalind E. Beaufort
Sender Location	No address
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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