Crimean War diary of Surgeon Major William Menzies Calder, 1 July 1855 - 15 March 1856, starting in Scutari Barracks, moving to the camp before Sebastopol on 28 July 1855

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1849-1962
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RAMC/701
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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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Crimean War diary of Surgeon Major William Menzies Calder, 1 July 1855 - 15 March 1856, starting in Scutari Barracks, moving to the camp before Sebastopol on 28 July 1855. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Diary, 1855-1856. Chapter 3, p.24 includes a description of the Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole.

The following items were originally enclosed at the front and back of the volume, but have been removed and stored separately:

Notice of awards to the Botanical Class, University of Edinburgh, summer session 1849, which includes a certificate of merit to William Menzies Calder; and summer session 1850, which includes a gold medal to him for an Edinburgh herbarium.

20th Century ms. transcript of some of the fainter passages in the diary.

Correspondence, 1961-1962, re deposit.

Publication/Creation

1849-1962

Physical description

1 volume, 1 file, and 1 reel of microfilm (in 1 box)

Related material

With microfilm copy of the diary

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by Wellcome Collection.

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