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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D8760/F/OBJ/5
Former Reference	D3311/OBJ
Title	Letters, writings and drawings by Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua, also known as Qalasirssuaq, an Inuit, who acted as a guide to Captain Erasmus Ommaney, commander of H.M.S. Assistance on an 1850 expedition to find Franklin
Date	1853-1855
Description	Comprising letter from 'Kalli', St Augustine's College [Canterbury], 11 May 1853 [to Mrs J P (Eleanor) Gell, his Godmother], enclosing three little drawings, two of ships and one of two polar bears; letter to Mrs E Gell written from St John College, 3 October 1855, signed Erasmus A Kalli with a subscript added: 'Kalli's last letter from St John's Newfoundland, where he died, 1855'; sheet of scripture titled 'Second Class Book John 5 39', possibly a piece of writing practice or religious study.
Extent	6 items
Level	Item
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
Format	Artwork
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Term	Sailing vessels
	Ships
	Seagoing vessels
	Inuit
	Indigenous populations
	Franklin Expedition (1845)
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