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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Project / Collection Jaffna Protestant digital archive project Subject Education

1. EAP835/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/5
Title:
Report of the Uduvil School Committee 1841-(1864) 1875
Scope & Content:
Reports on the Uduvil Girls' and Boys' Boarding Schools by a number of missionaries and mission Tamil assistants, including Daniel Poor (1789-1855), Samuel Hutchings (1806-1895), Francis Asbury (1810-?), Edward Cope (1806-?), and Robert Wyman (?-?). General information provided on classes, pupils...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1841-1864
Extent:
200 TIFF files

2. EAP835/1/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/6
Title:
Ecclesiastical Reports 1855-1860
Scope & Content:
This file holds reports from numerous mission stations in the Jaffna peninsula, including Batticotta, Chavagachery, Karativoe, Manipay, Oodoopitty, Oodooville, and Valany. Some of the reports are signed by missinoaryes like E.P. Hastings (?-1890), and Levi Spaulding (1791-1873), and mission assis...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1855-1860
Extent:
478 TIFF files

3. EAP835/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/9
Title:
Records of the Committees on Uduvil School 1855-1883
Scope & Content:
This file contains records of examinations of the Uduvil Female Boarding School periodically held by the missionaries appointed to the Committees. Comments include concerns about specific pupils, feedback on teachers, criticisms of class levels, and other issues related to the schools and the lev...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1855-1883
Extent:
346 TIFF files

4. EAP835/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/2
Title:
Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India (JDCSI) Collection
Scope & Content:
This description comes in part from Professor Bernard Bate's finding aid for the JDCSI's archive, published in 2005. This collection consists mostly of manuscript materials "from the establishment of the American Ceylon Mission (ACM) in 1816 by the American Ceylon Board of Commissioners for Forei...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1816-1866
Extent:
1300 Tiff images

5. EAP835/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/2/1
Title:
Letters of the A.C.M. to A.B.C.F.M. 1816-1854
Scope & Content:
This file contains a typical collection of letters concerned with American Ceylon Mission affairs. Some points discussed in the manuscript include the mission schools, the Press, missionary travel between America, Ceylon, and India, and the relationship between ACM missionaries and the British go...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816-1854
Extent:
358 TIFF files

6. EAP835/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/2/4
Title:
Diary Fragment, 1836-1838
Scope & Content:
This file describes church admissions, schools, the printing press, religious vocations, mission meetings, and funds of the mission. The writer mentions Samuel Hutchings (1806-1895), Benjamin Meigs (1789-1862), M.D. Sanders (?-?), and Miron Winslow (1789-1864) in his reports.Physical characteris...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1836-1838
Extent:
84 TIFF files

7. EAP835/2/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/2/7
Title:
Report Fragments, 1851-1855
Scope & Content:
This file consists of three tabular sheets and one eight-page report: a. Chavagacherry, Ecclesiastical and Educational Returns, 1851; b. Panditeripo, Ecclesiastical and Educational Returns, 1851; c. Oodooville, Ecclesiastical and Educational Returns, 1851; d. "Programme of Results of Preaching an...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1816-1855
Extent:
18 TIFF files

8. EAP835/2/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/2/8
Title:
Sundry Reports, 1855-1866
Scope & Content:
This file contains reports on the process of ordaination for Ceylonese preachers, certificates of ordination, and license to preach. It also contains detailed data relating to the ACM's printing establishment, with tract-by-tract descriptions by Levi Spaulding (1791-1873), and information on clas...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1855-1866
Extent:
356 TIFF files

9. EAP835/2/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/2/9
Title:
Letterbook Fragment, 1858-1866
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of letters sent from E.P. Hastings (?-1890) to Rufus Anderson (1796-1880), Secretary of the ABCFM. These letters refer to ACM business and concerns such as methods for village schools, the uses of the Native Evangelical Society in Jaffna, and financial burdens as well as...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1858-1866
Extent:
224 TIFF files

10. EAP835/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/3
Title:
Jaffna College Archive Collection
Scope & Content:
The archive belongs to Jaffna College and holds diverse materials ranging from 1710 to the present, with a focus on late nineteeneth- and early-twentieth century materials. The materials are divided into seven shelves categorized by major subject: history, religion, medicine, astronomy, the Tamil...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1841-1895
Extent:
1635 Tiff images

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