| Description | Volume of letters (indexed), including originals and transcripts, written by, or to, Alexander Chalmers. Includes letters to his father written while at sea on board H.M.S. Falcon, copies of certificates of service, his commission as Acting Chief Engineer (dated 9 October 1861), and a handwritten list of the ships he had served on between 1852 and 1864 with corresponding dates (p.383). |