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Collection Area Endangered Archives Programme Subject Accounting and Finance Place Ceylon, Asia

1. EAP835/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/3
Title:
Proceedings of Meetings of Delegates of the three Tamil Missions 1838-1841
Scope & Content:
The manuscript is inaccurately titled. It consists of letters written by two successive secretaries of Foreign Correspondence for the ABCFM, Rufus Anderson (1796-1880) and Nathanial G. Clark (1825-?), addressed to the American Ceylon Mission between 1862 and 1879. These letters contain general in...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1862-1879
Extent:
600 TIFF files

2. EAP835/1/8

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/1/8
Title:
Letters to the Secretaries of the A.B.C.F.M. 1874
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters written by E.P. Hastings (?-1890) to Nathanial G. Clark (1825-?), Secretary of the A.B.C.F.M. The letters contain information on the mission's doings, financial details, estimates for financial burden of the following years, etc. Physical characteristics of original mat...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1874
Extent:
228 TIFF files

3. 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

4. EAP835/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/2/5
Title:
Letters to B. Meigs from H. Hill, 1825-1838
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters from Henry Hill (?-?), Treasurer of the A.B.C.F.M., addressed to Miron Winslow and Benjamin Meigs. These letters, sent from India, London, and Boston, concern funds for the ACM in the form of payments and donations for supplies and for Tamil children to attend school.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1825-1838
Extent:
68 TIFF files

5. 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

6. EAP1222/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1222/1
Title:
Jaffna Bishop’s House Manuscript Collection
Scope & Content:
This collection consists of documents and manuscripts (including some typed letters and some printed documents) dating from the period 1750 to 1950. They reflect the history of the Roman Catholic missions in Ceylon or describe the day to day administrative and managerial activities of the Oblate...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Latin, Portuguese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1775-1948
Extent:
110642

7. EAP1222/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1222/1/9
Title:
Series 9 - Collections of Returns (related to schools, churches, paschal communion…)
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Tamil
Date Range:
1775-1948
Extent:
68

8. EAP1222/1/9/9

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1222/1/9/9
Title:
[A colllection of Returns (Income and Expenditures) for the year 1913, in French, concerning the Diocese of Jaffna. ]
Scope & Content:
Extent: 1 set containing 144 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-29.6cm, W-23.2cm, D-1cm. Condition of original material: Fragile.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1913
Extent:
26

9. EAP1222/1/9/27

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1222/1/9/27
Title:
[A collection of returns in French (income and expenditure) for the year 1913 and from various parishes in the Diocese of Jaffna. With a few letters in Tamil. ]
Scope & Content:
Extent: 1 set containing 106 pages. Size and dimensions of original material: H-31.5cm, W-24.5cm, D-1.7cm. Condition of original material: Fragile.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
French and Tamil
Date Range:
1913
Extent:
60

10. EAP1222/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP1222/1/10
Title:
Series 10 - Correspondance and documents related to school matters
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1775-1948
Extent:
742