Orders, Decorations and Medals

Postmarked Letter, from Alexander Campbell, 78th Regiment in India, to Dougald and Lettie McFaidan of Greenock, by Glasgow, dated 6 December 1804, recalling his voyage to, and first sights of, India, part torn, some repairs, discoloration and fold marks, fairly good condition £30-40

‘.... I have never been sick the hole voyage yet, we had a very pleasant passage except coming round Cape of Good Hope, there was a few squals then but not mutch, and ankired 17 June at Bombay and there was a great number of black men commin allong side of us selling vegetables and I was never so astonished in my life when I saw them as to si them stark nauked. ...’

Alexander Campbell was born in Sleat on the Isle of Skye. A Private in the 78th Regiment, the Seaforth Highlanders, he retired from the army in 1811 due to blindness. Sold with a typed copy of the letter and copied biographical details of Alexander Campbell.