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Correspondence of Eleanor Anne Porden
Catalogue reference: D8760/F/FEP/1
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This record is about the Correspondence of Eleanor Anne Porden dating from 1800-1825.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- D8760/F/FEP/1
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Title (The name of the record)
- Correspondence of Eleanor Anne Porden
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1800-1825
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Description (What the record is about)
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The letters date from 1800 when she was five years old to April 1825, with 4 letters written by her husband, John Franklin, before he was aware that she had actually died. They mostly consist of letters received by her, although there six letters written by her to her friend Henry Elliott, 1815-1822, and three draft letters written to other friends.
Other letters written by Eleanor Anne Porden are to be found elsewhere in the Gell collection: 54 letters to John Franklin, 1821-1824, at D8760/F/FSJ/1/1/1-54: 11 letters to her sister Sarah Henrietta Kay, 1822-1824, at D8760/F/FKA/1/3/1-8; 1 letter written jointly with her father to her nieces in the Kay family, 1818, at D8760/F/FKA/1/2/3.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Derbyshire Record Office
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth; Eleanor Anne Porden, later Eleanor Franklin (1795-1825)
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 59 items
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/7ae953e8-dc82-4862-a418-d146f20fcf1a/
Series information
D8760/F/FEP
Records of Eleanor Anne Porden, first wife of Sir John Franklin
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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/FEP
Records of Eleanor Anne Porden, first wife of Sir John Franklin
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Correspondence of Eleanor Anne Porden