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| Archive Reference / Library Class No. | D8760/F/FEG/2 |
| Title | Diaries of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin |
| Date | 1836-1850 |
| Description | The diaries relate to her time in Tasmania while her father was Lieutenent Governor of Van Diemen's Land [now Tasmania] including the journey out, her later travels with her aunt to the Americas, the continent and within England, and after her marriage to John Philip Gell. She was not a consistent writer in her diaries, and there are frequent gaps between dates, as well as lengthy periods when not entires were made. |
| Extent | 11 volumes |
| Level | Series |
| Repository | Derbyshire Record Office |
| Archive Creator | Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860) |
| Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth |
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