| Description | Bundle of papers relating to the regimental accounts of the 78th while in India. Including; Accounts (5) of Colonel Mackenzie with Captain P McLeod, paymasters for pay, messing, allowances and advances from August-November 1799. Prospectus of an infirmary to be built at Inverness for the relief of 'sick poor Highlanders' [November 1799]. List of subscribers to this infirmary, including officers and men of the 78th and other units in India. Letter to Colonel Mackenzie from P Macleod, on the subject of the regimental accounts. The writer has received a letter from his father [Macleod of Geanies] 'he appears at last to conceive the possibility of my doing well'. Gives news of mutual acquaintances. Cawnpore, 17 November 1799 |