| Description | Volume of correspondence (indexed) written by, or concerning, John Chalmers but also including copies of medical certificate, telegram granting leave, memoranda and other papers (transcripts and originals). Includes copy of details of estate of Lieutenant John Chalmers dated 1871, transcript of letter to his father, addressed from Attock, dated 26 February 1860, with account of visit of Lord Canning [Governor-General of India (1856-58), Viceroy (1858-62)] and Lord Clyde [Commander-in-Chief in India] (p.57), letter dated 27 July 1860 from Cashmere in which he discusses his health and possible return home (p.127), and financial memoir of John Chalmers and his four brothers in handwriting of their sister Elizabeth (p.489). |