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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Reference | NLS MS.15393 |
| Title | Journal and commonplace book of John Charles Brown, a private soldier in the 3rd European Bengal Regiment, during the Indian Uprising, 1855-1861. |
| Document Type | Manuscript |
| Date | 1855-1861 |
| Description | 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. |
| Theme(s) | The East India Company: Government and Administration c. 1750-1857; Indian Uprising 1857-58 |
| Keywords | journal, poetry, Indian Uprising 1857-58, army, military |
| Names | Brown, John Charles |
| Places | Chinsurah, Meerut, Cawnpore, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Lucknow, Agra, Gwalior, Central India Agency, Ganges River |
| Notes | Presented 1979 by the Rev. J.H. Patterson, Aberdeen. |
| Library | National Library of Scotland |
| Copyright | National Library of Scotland |