| Description | Volume of letters (indexed), the majority of which are written by Samuel Chalmers to members of his family. Includes transcript of letter written by Samuel Chalmers to his brother John from Delhi, dated 20 September 1857, describing conditions in the city following the mutiny. He remarks that there is 'not a house either in city or suburbs standing' and notes that a great deal of looting has taken place (p.755). There is also a transcription of a letter to his father, dated 30 April 1857, from ?Jullunder in which he writes about the introduction of the new cartidges which sparked the mutiny (p.693). Also includes copies of accounts, a transcript of his discharge from the army, dated 27 April 1857, a transcription of a letter from William Chalmers to Samuel Chalmers (p.901), dated 27 April 1858, in which he discusses the plan to build a Music Hall (now located on Union Street, Aberdeen), an official letter from the India Office enclosing the India Mutiny Medal with clasp 'Delhi' granted posthumously to Samuel Chalmers in 1905 (p.939), and the last letter written by Samuel Chalmers to his father from Calcutta, dated 4 August 1858 (p.871). A photograph of Samuel Chalmers has been pasted into the front of the volume.
[The letters have been collated by year but are not always ordered correctly by month] |