Journal and commonplace book of John Charles Brown, a private soldier in the 3rd European Bengal Regiment, during the Indian Uprising, 1855-1861 : Manuscript 1855-1861.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Library of Scotland, owner.

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

India, Raj & Empire.

India, Raj & Empire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

East India Company.

India--History--Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858.

India.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Sources.

Hugli (India : Town).

Meerut (India).

Kānpur (India).

North-Western Provinces (India).

Lucknow (India).

Agra (India).

Gwalior (India).

Central India.

Ganges River (India and Bangladesh).

Genre:

Diaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Production:

[Place of production not identified : producer not identified, 1855-1861]

Summary:

The narrative covers the period from 21 December 1855 to 3 July 1861, but with several gaps, and is followed by a miscellany of notes and memoranda on various topics including moral maxims, medical and household recipes, puzzles and mathematic formulae. From the formality of the layout and handwriting, the photographs and drawings pasted in at various places, and the poems and extracts interspersed in the narrative, it seems likely that this is a fair copy written up at leisure either from rough notes or a first, rough copy; but it has subsequently suffered damage to many of the leaves and has lost both covers and back.

Notes:

Presented 1979 by the Rev. J.H. Patterson, Aberdeen.

AMDigital Reference: NLS MS.15393.

Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2008. Digitized from a copy held by the National Library of Scotland.

Description based on online resource (viewed August 18, 2023).

OCLC:

1394994191

Access Restriction:

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