Gell-Franklin family papers [M377-380, M390] 1800-1955

MAV/FM4/1547-1550
Status: unavailable

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

421997

microfilm reels 35 mm

Sir John Franklin served under Flinders on the Investigator, was a polar explorer and Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania, 1836-1843. Lady Jane Franklin (1792-1875) was his second wife. Rev. John Philip Gell (1816-98) was headmaster of Queen's School, Hobart from 1839 and Warden of Christ's College from 1846. In 1849 he married Eleanor Isabella Franklin (1825-60), daughter of Sir John Franklin

The papers include : papers of Rev. J.P. Gell and his wife including letters to Eleanor Isabella from Sir John and Lady Franklin and papers about the Queen's School and Christ's College. Correspondents include Ronald C. Gunn of Hobart. Notebooks and diaries, including a diary describing Gell's voyage to Van Diemen's Land on the convict ship Runnymede in 1839-40. Papers of Sir John and Lady Franklin including private and official correspondence of Sir John while Governor of Van Diemen's Land, a letter from Matthew Flinders, 1812, and a series of letters from Sir John to Dr John Richardson, surgeon and naturalist. Also includes letters written by Franklin aboard the Investigator. M390 consists of only three frames, a note on the contents of the Gell archives

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M377-380, M390
Microfilm copy of originals held in private ownership
Descriptive list (11 p.) appears at the beginning of M377
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