Elizabeth Fry collection

This material is held atScott Polar Research Institute Archives, University of Cambridge

  • Reference
    • GB 15 Elizabeth Fry
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1836-1839
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • Correspondence (3 leaves)

Scope and Content

The collection comprises of correspondence by Elizabeth Fry to Sir John Franklin and his wife Jane, Lady Franklin regarding Van Diemen's Land

Administrative / Biographical History

Elizabeth Gurney was born in Norwich in May 1780 a devout Quaker she married Joseph Fry in 1800. After a visit to Newgate prison in 1813 she became an advocate for prison reform establishing a school and chapel for the female prisoners and touring the country visiting other prisons. She died in 1845

Arrangement

The correspondence to the Franklins is arranged alphabetically by recipient

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Descriptions compiled by N. Boneham, Assistant Archivist with assistance from R. Stancombe and reference to Spartacus

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Clive Holland Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England - a catalogue, Garland Publishing New York and London (1982) ISBN 0824093941.

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