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Letter from John Griffin to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, including reference to Griffin...
Catalogue reference: D8760/F/FEG/1/37/1
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This record is a file about the Letter from John Griffin to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, including reference to Griffin... dating from 9 Mar 1840.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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D8760/F/FEG/1/37/1
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Title (The name of the record)
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Letter from John Griffin to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, including reference to Griffin having seen Prince Albert
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Date (When the record was created)
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9 Mar 1840
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Description (What the record is about)
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Receipt of her letter of 29 Oct, with its entertaining account fo improvements over which her father presides; with natural history being her favourite amusment, he asks her why there is such mortality among the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens (over 60 dead with scarcely one left); visit of Prince Albert to their Hall, a handsome and elegant young man, fit to be a prince; it is possible John may make his appearance at court and kiss the Queen's hand; he is glad Eleanor is busy in her studies, with time never hanging heavy on her hands, having the advantage of being under the tuition of her parents, to whom he is to be remembered.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Derbyshire Record Office
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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D3287/32/1/13
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth; Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1 sheet
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/96d91400-b6d6-4520-9cd9-c73fb26ecca5/
Series information
D8760/F/FEG
Records of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin, daughter of Sir John and Eleanor Franklin...
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Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at Derbyshire Record Office
Within the fonds: D8760
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Within the sub-fonds: D8760/F
Family records of the extended Franklin family and the Gell family of Hopton Hall
Within the series: D8760/F/FEG
Records of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin, daughter of Sir John and Eleanor Franklin...
Within the sub-series: D8760/F/FEG/1
Correspondence of Eleanor Isabella Gell nee Franklin
Within the sub-sub-series: D8760/F/FEG/1/37
Letters from John Griffin, father of Lady Franklin, to Eleanor Isabella Gell
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Letter from John Griffin to Eleanor Isabella Franklin, including reference to Griffin having seen Prince Albert