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D8760 - Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth - 1714-1994
E - Estate records of the Gell family of Hopton Hall - 1794-1863
F - Family records of the extended Franklin family and the Gell family of Hopton Hall - 1714-1994
FBO - Records of the Booth family of Lincolnshire, related to Sir John Franklin - 1817-1838
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
1 - Letters from Sir John Franklin to his daughter Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 1831-1845
2 - Letters from Jane, Lady Franklin (née Griffin) to her stepdaughter Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1828-1849
3 - Letters from John Philip Gell to his wife Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1850-1857
4 - Letters to Eleanor Isabella Gell from her children - [c1855-1859]
5 - Letters from father-in-law Reverend Philip Gell to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1846
6 - Letters from mother-in-law Elizabeth Gell (née Dod) to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1849-1857
7 - Letters from Fredrick Gell to his sister-in-law Eleanor Isabella Gell (nee Franklin) - 1848-1853
8 - Letters from Elizabeth Gell to her sister-in-law Eleanor Isabella Gell (nee Franklin) - 1848-1855
9 - Letters from Harriet Isabella Gell to her sister-in-law Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1849-1855
10 - Letters from Harriet Sim (née Dod) to her relation Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1852
11 - Correspondence between Elizabeth Franklin and her niece Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1837-1849
12 - Correspondence between cousins Catherine Franklin, later Rawnsley, and Eleanor Isabella Franklin later Gell - 1832-1855
13 - Letters from Emma Franklin to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1849-1850
14 - Letters from Fanny Lydia Franklin, wife of Willingham Franklin, to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1850
15 - Letters from Hannah Booth to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1849-1858
16 - Letters from John Booth to his niece Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1854
17 - Letters from Mary Richardson (née Booth), second wife of John Richardson, to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 1844
18 - Letters from Sir John Richardson and his third wife Mary to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1848-1856
19 - Letters from Thomas Willingham Booth to his cousin Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1850
20 - Letters from Isabella Cracroft (née Franklin) to her niece Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1841-1852
21 - Letters from Catherine Cracroft to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1847-c1855
22 - Letters from cousin Emma Cracroft to Eleanor Isabella Franklin later Gell - 1836-1850
23 - Letters from Isabella Cracroft to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 1838
24 - Letters from Sophia Cracroft to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Franklin later Gell - 1840-1850
25 - Letters from Mary Price (née Franklin) to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Franklin later Gell - 1842-1852
26 - Letters from Julia Price, sister of the husband of Mary Price nee Franklin, to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1857
27 - Letters from Henry Sellwood to his niece Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1849-1855
28 - Letters from cousin Anne Weld (née Sellwood) to Eleanor Isabella Gell - [1849-1850]
29 - Letters from Emily Tennyson (née Sellwood) to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1850
30 - Letters from Louisa Turner (née Sellwood) to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1849
31 - Letters from Henrietta Weekes Wright (née Franklin) to her niece Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1849-1855
32 - Letters from the Wright cousins to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1852
33 - Letters from Sarah Henrietta Kay (née Porden) to her niece Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1838-1856
34 - Letters from cousin Mary Anne Kendall (née Kay) to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1847-1856
35 - Letter from Mary Anne Mantell (née Kendall) to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1856
36 - Letters to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell, from cousins in the Kay family - 1838-1857
37 - Letters from John Griffin, father of Lady Franklin, to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1840-[c1850]
38 - Letters between Frances Majendie (née Griffin) and her niece Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1847-1849
39 - Letters from Lady Mary Simpkinson (née Griffin) to her niece Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 1832-1849
40 - Letters from Sir Francis Simpkinson, brother-in-law of Lady Jane Franklin, to Eleanor Isabella Gell - [c1850]
41 - Letters from John Nassau Simpkinson to his cousin Eleanor Isabella Gell - [1854]
42 - Letters from Sarah Dorothea (colloquially known as Dora) Simpkinson (née Vaughan), wife of John Nassau Simpkinson, to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1851-1857
43 - Letters from Emma Simpkinson to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1842-1858
44 - Letters from Marianne Jane Simpkinson to her cousin Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - [c1830-1857]
45 - Letters from cousin Mary Louisa Dixon (née Simpkinson) to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 1849-1856
46 - Letters from James Dixon, husband of Mary Louisa Dixon (née Simpkinson), to Eleanor Isabella Gell - [c1859]
47 - Letters from Anna M. Dixon, sister of husband of Mary Louisa Dixon (née Simpkinson), to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1848-1853
48 - Letters from the Guillemard family to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1847-1854
49 - Letters from the Beaufort family to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1848-1857
50 - Letters from the Parry family to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1849-1856
51 - Letters from members of the Ross family to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - 1849-1855
52 - Letters from other correspondents to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell - [c1836-1858]
1 - Letter from Mary Arnold to Eleanor Isabella Gell, offering congratulations on the birth of a daughter to the Gells: with envelope - 3 Jun 1850
2 - Letter from Thomas Atkinson to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, on their mutual acquaintance, the late Mrs Poindexter of America - 4 Mar 1848
3 - Letter from Lady Mary Jane Barrow to Eleanor Isabella Gell, offering sympathy with her over her" double trials" - 25 Nov 1854
4 - Letter from William Beechey to Eleanor Isabella Gell, relating to the false news that Franklin had been found, with rough sketch map of position of ships in the Arctic - 10 Oct [1849]
5 - Letter from JH Bradford to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, remembering the time spent with Eleanor and Lady Franklin and informing her of the death of Mrs Poindexter in Baltimore - 22 May 1848
6 - Letter from Charlotte Bruce to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, on the former being in Florence, Italy - [Oct 1847]
7 - Letter from Julia Clark to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on the Gells possibly visiting in the next couple of weeks - 6 Nov 1857
8 - Letter from Emily Collinson to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on news on the safety of her son Richard Collinson, who had been searching for Franklin in the Arctic for a number of years in HMS Enterprise - 27 Nov 1854
9 - Letter from Richard Collinson to Eleanor Isabella Gell, during his expedition to look for Franklin via the Behring Straits - 28 Mar 1851
10 - Letter from L.A. Cotton to friend Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 18 Mar 1848
11 - Letter from Maria Cox to Eleanor Isabella Gell, including references to John Philip Gell's childhood and Florence Nightingale's response to the death at Scutari of a son of one of Florence's servants - 1 May 1855
12 - Letter from Cecille Cramar to Eleanor Isabella Gell, concerning the conversion of Marianne Simpkinson to Catholicism - 19 Nov 1852
13 - Letter from Fanny Dyster to Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 27 Oct 1846
14 - Letter from Frederic Dyster to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, including concerna over Eleanor's well-being - 7 Dec 1847
15 - Letter from Frederic Dyster to Eleanor Isabella Gell, including reference to her father's promotion to Rear Admiral; with envelope - 5 Nov 1852
16 - Letter from J. Earle to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on John Franklin Gell staying with the Simpkinsons - 27 Oct 1853
17 - Letter from K.E. Ferguson to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, offering congratulations on Eleanor's upcoming marriage - 5 Jun 1849
18 - Letter from Catherine Fraser to Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 10 Feb [1848]
19 - Letter from Catherine Fraser to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, relating to attempts to improve the circumstances of the prisoner Henry Voller - 15 Feb [1848]
20 - Letter from Catherine Fraser to Eleanor Isabella Gell, relating to charity work to improve the lot of female inmates of an asylum - [1850s]
21 - Letter from Maria Gawler to Eleanor Isabella and John Gell, offering congratulations on their marriage - 13 Jun 1849
22 - Letter from Maria Gawler to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on her taking care of Eleanor's child, John Franklin Gell - 26 Sep 1853
23 - Letter from Maria Gawler to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 17 Oct [1853]
24 - Letter from Annie Gilbert to her friend Eleanor Isabella Gell, welcoming her at the start of Eleanor's honeymoon in Eastbourne: with envelope - 7 Jun 1849
25 - Letter from Annie Gilbert to Eleanor Isabella Gell - [1850]
26 - Letter from Edward Griffiths to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on newspapers containing reports by Sir J. Ross (official) and Sir John Richardson - [c1849]
27 - Letter from Julia Hall to her friend Eleanor Isabella Gell, offering congratulations on Eleanor's marriage - 13 Jun 1849
28 - Letter from Julia Hall to her friend Eleanor Isabella Gell, thanking her for sympathy following the death of Julia's son - [1850s]
29 - Letter from Elizabeth F.S. Harris to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, on Eleanor's note having been forwarded by her brother, relating to Elizabeth's book on her struggles with Roman Catholicism - 24 Nov 1847
30 - Letter from Elizabeth F.S. Harris to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, relating to various topics of Roman Catholicism, particularly on excommunication - 5 Dec 1847
31 - Letter from Elizabeth F.S. Harris to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, relating to Elizabeth's personal struggles about Roman Catholicism - [Jan 1848]
32 - Letter from Elizabeth F.S. Harris to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, relating to Elizabeth's personal struggles about Roman Catholicism, including reference to Eleanor's dsilike of her book - 25 Feb 1848
33 - Letter from Elizabeth F.S. Harris to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, relating to Elizabeth's personal struggles about Roman Catholicism - 19 Aug 1848
34 - Letter from Elizabeth F.S. Harris to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, relating to Elizabeth's personal struggles about Roman Catholicism - 19 Sep 1848
35 - Letter from J.N. Hayne to her friend Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 31 Jan [1848]
36 - Letter from J.N. Hayne to her friend Eleanor Isabella Franklin, written on the day before Eleanor's marriage: with envelope - 6 Jun 1849
37 - Letter from J.N. Hayne to her friend Eleanor Isabella Gell, written when Eleanor is on her honeymoon, congratulating her on her marriage: with envelope - 12 Jun 1849
38 - Letter from J.N. Hayne to her friend Eleanor Isabella Gell: with envelope - 6 Feb [1850]
39 - Letter from J.N. Hayne to her friend Eleanor Isabella Gell - 5 Feb [1851]
40 - Letter from J.N. Hayne to her friend Eleanor Isabella Gell - 3 Jul [1851]
41 - Letter from J.N. Hayne to her friend Eleanor Isabella Gell, containing congratulations on Mr Gell's appointment at Notting Hill - 16 Sep [1854]
42 - Letter from Louisa Herring to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, with apologies for not being in when Eleanor called - [c1836]
43 - Letter from Louisa Herring to Eleanor Isabella Gell, offering sympathy for Eleanor's worries concerning the alleged report of the Esquimaux knowledge of the whereabouts of her father's expedition - 18 Nov [1849]
44 - Letter from Louisa Herring to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on the plans of Lady Franklin concerning the search for the Franklin expedition - 18 Jun 1849
45 - Letter from Lady Maria Hooker to Eleanor Isabella Gell, including references to the safety of Robert M'Clure - 10 Oct [1853]
46 - Letter from Lady Maria Hooker to Eleanor Isabella Gell, relating to the imprisonment of her son Joseph Hooker - 22 Jan [1850]
47 - Letter from Rachel Hutchins to Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 29 Jun 1844
48 - Letter from Fred Leicester to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 19 May [1855]
49 - Letter from Annie M. Lowe to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, offering congratulations on Eleanor's upcoming marriage: with envelope - 4 Jun 1849
50 - Letter from Julia Mackintosh to Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 20 Oct [1847]
51 - Letter from R.J. Macintosh to her friend Eleanor Isabella Gell, on her coming to Strathpeffer on the steamer - 11 Aug [1857]
52 - Letter from Elizabeth Marriott to her friend Eleamor Isabella Gell, thanking her for writing on the eve of Eleanor's marriage: with envelope - 11 Jun 1849
53 - Letter from Elizabeth Marriott to her friend Eleanor Isabella Gell, relating to possible employment prospects for Eleanor's husband - 8 Jan 1850
54 - Letter from Mary Atkinson Maurice to Eleanor Isabella Gell, relating to the death of Archdeacon Hare: with envelope - 29 Jan [1853]
55 - Letter from Lucille Powell to Eleanor Isabella Gell, relating to the death of Lucille's brother, Archdeacon Hare - 27 Jan [1853]
56 - Letter from Mary Atkinson Maurice to Eleanor Isabella Gell, relating to the funeral of Archdeacon Hare - [2 Feb 1853]
57 - Letter from Mary Atkinson Maurice to Eleanor Isabella Gell - [mid 1850s]
58 - Letter from Augusta S. Moore to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, following Eleanor's return from Tasmania - 3 Sep 1844
59 - Letter from M. Newman to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 9 May [1853]
60 - Letter from M. Newman to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 9 Jul [1853]
61 - Letter from M. Newman to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 3 Nov 1854
62 - Letter from M. Newman to Eleanor Isabella Gell - [Dec 1854]
63 - Letter from M. Newman to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 3 Jan [1855]
64 - Letter from M. Newman to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 28 Apr [1855]
65 - Letter from Anna M. Nixon to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 25 Nov [1855]
66 - Letter from Anna M. Nixon to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 26 Dec [1855]
67 - Letter from Francis R. Nixon, Bishop of Tasmania, to Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 25 Nov 1847
68 - Letter from Eliza B. Oliver to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 3 Feb 1854
69 - Letter from Annie Owen to her friend Eleanor Isabella Gell, including references to improving relations with Lady Franklin - 14 Feb [1853]
70 - Letter from Eliza Palgrave to Eleanor Isabella Gell - 2 Mar [1852]
71 - Letter from Eliza M. Peddie to Eleanor Isabella Gell, about the likely fate of the Franklin expedition, on which Mrs Peddie's husband had served - 20 Feb [1852]
72 - Letter from Anne Petrie to Eleanor Isabella Gell, including on copies of letters of the Flinders family being lent to Eleanor, Anne being a Flinders cousin - [mid 1850s]
73 - Letter from George Pinnock to Eleanor Isabella Gell, turning down an exchange of houses with the Gells - 3 Apr 1851
74 - Letter from Mary Poindexter to Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 3 Jul 1846
75 - Letter from M.A. Roberts to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on the genealogy of the Porden family: with envelope - 4 Apr 1855
76 - Letter from M. de la Roquette to Eleanor Isabella Gell, relating to his publication of a biography of Sir John Franklin - 20 Dec 1856
77 - Letter from N. Rousset to Eleanor Isabella Gell, with apologies for error with regard to Lieutenant Bellot and a mistaken engagement to Lady Franklin's daughter - 6 Sep 1855
78 - Letter from E. Stanley to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on contributions for wounded in the Scutari hospitals in the Crimea - 2 Dec [1854]
79 - Letter from C.S.T. [Torlesse] to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on his family, including lines from a journal on Eleanor's visit to them in October 1847 - 24 Feb 1852
80 - Letter from C.S. Torlesse to Eleanor Isabella Gell, on the loss of the writer's daughter - 15 Apr 1852
81 - Letter from Anne Waddington to Eleanor Isabella Gell, with congratulations on the birth of a child and John Philip Gell's new post - 6 Oct [1854]
82 - Letter from Mr and Mrs G. Walter to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, asking her to accept a copy of the History of England as a small tribute of respect for the many kindnesses shown by Sir John and Lady Franklin - 29 Jan 1840
83 - Letter from Fanny Walter to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, with envelope - [early 1840s]
84 - First page of letter from Fanny Walter to Eleanor Isabella Franklin - [1843]
85 - Letter from Fanny Walter to Eleanor Isabella Franklin - 29 May 1844
86 - Letter from J. Williams, Chaplain of Cold Bath Fields Prison, to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, on the imprisonment of Henry Vollers: with envelope - 13 Apr 1848
87 - First page of letter from unknown writer to Eleanor Isabella Gell - [1850s]
53 - Envelopes addressed to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Gell, but not united with appropriate letters - [1844-1856]
2 - Diaries of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin - 1836-1850
3 - Personal records of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin - [mid 19th cent]
4 - Documents following the death and burial of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin in 1860 - 1860-[early 20th cent]
FEP - Records of Eleanor Anne Porden, first wife of Sir John Franklin - 1800-1828
FJR - Records of John Richardson, colleague, friend and later relative of John Franklin - 1820-1861
FKA - Records of the Kay family, related to Sir John Franklin by his marriage to his first wife, Eleanor - 1797-1860
FLJ - Records of Jane, Lady Franklin nee Griffin, second wife of Sir John Franklin - 1841-1871
FSJ - Records of Sir John Franklin - 1810-[early 20th cent]
FWP - Records of William Porden, father-in-law of Sir John Franklin - 1754-1822
GBM - Records of Boyd Pollen Manningham - 1823-1830
GEL - Records of Edith Lyttelton Gell - 1880-1937
GFK - Records of Frederick Gell - 1840-1869
GHW - Records of Henry Willingham Gell - 1855-1938
GJF - Records of John Franklin Gell - 1872-1873
GJP - Records of Reverend John Philip Gell - 1836-1897
GMF - Records of Mary Frances Gell, grand-daughter of Sir John Franklin - 1930-1940
GPH - Records of Reverend Philip Gell - 1844-1870
GPL - Records of Philip Lyttelton Gell, son of John Philip and Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin, grandson of Sir John Franklin - 1873-1922
GPV - Records of Colonel Philip Victor Willingham Gell and his wife Aileen Edith Pauline Gell nee Maunsell - 1896-1976
LIB - Printed volumes and other printed material, mostly on Sir John Franklin and related topics - 1714-1994
OBJ - Objects collected by members of the Franklin and Gell families - [c350-c1900]
George M. Woodward (1767-1809), cartoonist
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