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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/GPL/1/6/9
Former ReferenceD3311/26/2
D3311/131
TitleLetter from J.E.C. Bodley to Philip Lyttelton Gell, on Eleanor Anne Porden being a Corresponding Member of the Institute of France
Date30 Nov 1922
DescriptionIn response to a letter by her in the Morning Post a few weeks on Sir John Franklin's wife; Bodley is himself a Corresponding Member of the Institute of France for 20 yaers, and there is currently agitation in the Institute about inviting a woman to speak to the annual meeting; he has never seen or heard mention of a woman being elected a member; he would be grateful if he could give full particulars; his being reminded of Gell's distinguished grandfather by the death of someone he used to see on Brighton Front who was one of the naval surgeons on one of the Franklin search expeditions, Inspector General Toms (lived to be 97); he requests her opinion on the climate in Devon, given that several of friends from that area prefer to live in the south of France.
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RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderJ.E.C. Bodley
Sender LocationHatchlands, Cuckfield, Sussex
RecipientPhilip Lyttelton Gell
Recipient LocationNo address
Archive CreatorPhilip Lyttelton Gell (1852-1926)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth

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