FRANKLIN (Lady Jane, 1792-1875, only Woman to be awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Gold Medal for Arctic Exploration)

Autograph Letter Signed to Lady Shiel saying that she is sorry that "you are not able to come to us & also that I am really under the necessity of leaving home thie morning to keep appointments which I cannot put aside - please excuse me and believe in my disappointment ...", 1 side 8vo., on mourning paper, no place, Wednesday, annotated in another hand as February

The recipient of the letter is Mary Leonora Woulfe, Lady Sheil. She was the author of Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia, published 1856.
Franklin was married first to the poet Eleanor Anne Porden who died in 1825 after two years of marriage. He subsequently married Jane Griffin, a friend of his first wife and a seasoned traveller who proved indomitable in the course of their life together.

Item Date:  1863

Stock No:  39677