Description | Volume of letters (indexed) written by William Chalmers to his mother, father and sister Elizabeth (then Cardno). Places of address include: Aldershot, Shomecliffe, London, Pembroke Dock, Perrally (nr. Tenby); Limerick; France: Nice, Marseilles, Paris; Malta; India: Calcutta, Benares, Allahabad, Sultanpore, Sahargange Ghat, Madras, Trimulgharry. 3 letters are addressed from France (pp.275-285). Includes letter dated 10 April 1861 from Army Medical Department denying his request for leave (p.367), a number of letters addressed from India during period 1861-62, a copy of a medical report on William Chalmers, 1862 (p.609), certificate of doctor attending William Chalmers, dated London, 27 December 1862 (p.617) and note of funeral expenses in handwriting of his sister Elizabeth (p.621). |