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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
  - FEP - Records of Eleanor Anne Porden, first wife of Sir John Franklin - 1800-1828
    - 6 - Travel diaries and commonplace books of Eleanor Anne Porden - 1815-1823

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEP/6/2
Former Reference	D3311/4/3
Former Reference	D3311/49
Title	Commonplace book of Eleanor Anne Porden
Date	1818
Description	Comprising extracts, with some notes, from Johnstone's travels in Russia, etc, on West Prussia, Moscow; Cambrian Popular Antiquities by Peter Roberts; Account of Switzerland by A. Yosy; The Sacred Edict of China, comprising 16 maxims by the Emperor Kangxi; Expeditions to the North Pole, from the Philosophical Magazine, Apr 1818; Remarks on the Kraken, from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, March 1818. Identified on the inside as William Porden's, but handwriting is that of Eleanor Porden
Extent	1 volume
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Eleanor Anne Porden, later Eleanor Franklin (1795-1825)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth

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