Baker, Thomas Young (1837-1901)

Diary including a voyage from Southampton to Calcutta to take up the post of Staff-Assistant-Surgeon to the 27th Regiment. Author's holograph MS. Illustrated with a few inserted pen-drawings of churches, coast-lines, etc. The diary starts on 13 August 1861 with a tour in the English Lake District: the author left Southampton on 4 February 1862 and arrived at Calcutta on the 12th of March. He was gazetted to the 27th Regiment, and the diary ends on December 31st, 1862 at Gondali.

1861-1862

269 pp. 8vo. 181/2x12 cm. Original calf binding worn.

Purchased 1932.

Baker retired in 1885 with the honorary rank of brigade-surgeon.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).