NAM.1992-10-127-101

Eight manuscript letters to Outram from John Jacob, Dec 1856 to Jun 1857, relating to Persia, with a letter of Mar 1857 from Gen Stalker, copy of a letter from Jacob to Lord Elphinstone, Mar 1857; with Sunday papers relating to the Indian Mutiny: printed ‘Notes on the Campaigns of the Indian Mutiny’ by Sir Henry Havelock, copies of 3 letters from Outram to Lord Clyde, Jan to Sept 1858, with correspondence of 1879 from Lt Gen Lawrence Shadwell, requesting permission to publish them; manuscript letter, Feb 1858, from Lt Col Eyre, Commanding Artillery and Cavalry Brigade, to Col Berkley, Outram’s Chief of Staff, regarding the selection of a member of the Volunteer Cavalry to receive the VC. From a collection of papers of Gen Sir James Outram (1803-1863), Bombay Army.

Indian Mutiny (1857-1859), Persian War (1856-1857)