| Description | Letters written by, or to, Alexander Chalmers, pasted into volume. Correspondents include his mother and father (Mary and Alexander) and his sister Elizabeth ('Lizzie'). The majority are addressed to his father and describe the places he has visited: from 1858 to 1862 he was on board H.M.S. Drake and H.M.S. Falcon. The letters do not appear to have been collated in any apparent order. |