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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/FEG/1/18/4
Former Reference	D3311/57/2
Title	Letter from Sir John Richardson to Eleanor Isabella Gell, giving his opinions on the ships H.M.S. Erebus and Terror having been supposedly sighted
Date	25 Nov 1853
Description	Including references to her opinions on the drifting of the Erebus and Terror out of their anchorage and their desertion by the crews matching his own, the examples provided by other ships, and Eskimo account of ship masts, it being unlikely that the ships' crews would not have communicated with the Eskimos, who were aware of the search
Extent	1 sheet
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
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Sender	John Richardson
Sender Location	Haslar Hospital, Gosport
Recipient	Eleanor Isabella Gell
Recipient Location	No address
Archive Creator	Eleanor Isabella Franklin, later Eleanor Gell (1824-1860)
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Format	Document
Term	Inuit
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	Indigenous populations
	Franklin Expedition (1845)

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