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032-004067030 Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Name American Ceylon Mission, 1813-

1. EAP971/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2
Title:
தென்னிந்திய திருச்சபை யாழ்ப்பாண மறைமாவட்டம்
Scope & Content:
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 Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to the transfer of the ACM to the Church of South India (CSI) in 1947. These materials include ni...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1780-2000
Extent:
32063 Tiff images

2. EAP971/2/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2/1
Title:
The 1937 Series
Scope & Content:
Named The 1937 series because Professor Bernard Bate believed the materials were organized and labeled after 1937. Although only one file was located and digitized by EAP971, the original series includes primarily letterbooks and tabāl books (manuscripts circulated amongst members of the mission...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1816-1937
Extent:
446 Tiff images

3. EAP971/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2/5
Title:
Ninteenth Century Sundry Mission Reports, c. 1840-1901
Scope & Content:
From Professor Bernard Bate's finding aid: "These represent a coherent categorical unit based on uniformity of subject matter, shelf proximity, and uniformity of paper and binding.... They consist primarily of mss. notebooks without covers or bindings." (2005). The first 8 files from this series...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1840-1901
Extent:
2856 Tiff images

4. EAP971/2/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2/6
Title:
Twentieth Century Sundry Mission Reports, 1919-1937
Scope & Content:
From Professor Bernard Bate's finding aid: "These represent a coherent categorical unit based on uniformity of subject matter, shelf proximity, and uniformity of paper bindings…. They consists primarily of mimeo copies of typed reports from the American Mission, Jaffna College, Uduvil Womens' Bo...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1919-1937
Extent:
40443 Tiff images

5. EAP971/2/4

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2/4
Title:
Uncategorized Letters and Letterbooks
Scope & Content:
The original series contained twentieth-century letters from the ABCFM, business office letters, and letter fragments between missionary organizations and sent to and from Ceylon and South India. Size and dimensions of original material: 3 files (2 volumes & 6 related folders held in 2 boxe...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1890-1973
Extent:
1404 Tiff images

6. EAP971/2/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2/1/1
Title:
Board to ACM and Other Correspondence
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters from the secretaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) and the Women's Board of Missions to missionaries and secretaries of the American Ceylon Mission (ACM). The primary receipents are Rev. Dr. Thomas B. Scott in Manipay, Jaffna, Rev....
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1916
Extent:
446 Tiff images

7. EAP971/2/5/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2/5/9
Title:
Reports, 1881, 1882
Scope & Content:
Includes: (a) 'Report of the ACM 1881.' Signed W.W.H. (first four pages missing, approx. 70 pages). Stations include, in order, Batticotta, Manipay, Panditteripu, Oodooville, Udupitty, Chavagacherry, Tillippally; also includes reports of the Medical Department, Native Assistants, the Female Boar...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1881-1882
Extent:
108 Tiff images

8. EAP971/2/5/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2/5/2
Title:
Notebook Fragment, 'Mission Letter for 1864.'
Scope & Content:
Mission letter for 1864 written by Rev. Levi Spaulding. Letter is split into categories and contains a detailed index. Include: tabular view of the ACM's ten churchesl updates on the Sabbath schoolsl statistics on native contributions to mission objects like churches, schools, pastors, etc.; inf...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1864-1866
Extent:
46 Tiff images

9. EAP971/2/5/18

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2/5/18
Title:
Facts and 'Failures'?! February 1855
Scope & Content:
According to Professor Bernard Bate, this file "appears to be a polemical statistical report designed to analyze the relationship between schooling in ACM institutions and church membership in ACM churches" (Bate, 2005). Includes: (a) American Missionaries in the Ceylon Mission Jaffna, (b) Index...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1855
Extent:
118 Tiff images

10. EAP971/2/6/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2/6/2
Title:
ACM Reports from 1922, 1923
Scope & Content:
The file is titled "Report American Ceylon Mission 1923. Includes: Introduction; Evangelistic Department of the American Ceylon Mission (Mrs. G.G. Brown); The Bible Women (Miss S.R. Howland); Tellippalai Station (Mr. A.A. Ward); Udupiddy Station (Rev. & Mrs. C.W. Miller); McLeod Hospital (Dr...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922-1923
Extent:
276 Tiff images

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