Collection Area: Endangered Archives Programme / Subject: Christianity - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/1/1
Title:: Meeting Minutes, 1815-1844
Scope & Content:: This file contains minutes beginning from the first ACM meeting abroad the ship Dryad on October 26, 1815, and ending Febuary 1, 1844. Contributors include Revs. G.H. Apthorp (1798-?), Horatio Bardwell (1788-1866), Edward Cope (1806-?), James Reed Eckard (1805-1887), Henry Richard Hoisington (18...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1815-1844
Extent:: 414 Tiff images

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

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

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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/2/2
Title:: JCSIUC Minutes, 1904-1947
Scope & Content:: These volumes represent a coherent categorical unit based on uniformity of bindings, labels and subject matter being the minutes of the Jaffna Council of the South Indian United Church. Size and dimensions of original material: 10 files.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1904-1947
Extent:: 326 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/2/2/1
Title:: Jaffna Council of the S.I.U.C. Vol VI
Scope & Content:: Meeting minutes for the Jaffna Council of the South India United Church for the years 1934-1936. Each year contains details on the delegates in attendance at meetings, members of the executive council, and annual budgets. Other concerns include the ordination of preachers, management of schools,...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1933-1936
Extent:: 326 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/2/3
Title:: Uncategorized Manuscript Notebooks
Scope & Content:: This series includes a series of notebooks relating to women's organizations and schools that were found in a single bundle along with some other printed books on Uduvil Girls' College. It also includes a unique, previously lost manuscript by C.F. Schwartz, renown eighteenth-century Protestant m...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1790-1966
Extent:: 374 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/2/3/1
Title:: கிறிஸத்தமான உபதேசத்தின் விளக்கம்
Scope & Content:: From manuscript title page: "written by Swartz. Copied from the ms in possession of Rev. G.H. Apthorp and recd by him from Rev. Brotherton, Tanjore, March 1. 1841." Collection of sermons by famous German Lutheran missionary C.F. Schwartz of the Halle-Tranquebar mission in South India, likely col...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Tamil
Date Range:: c 1790
Extent:: 374 Tiff images

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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/2/4/1
Title:: Sundry Files, 1890's - 1930's
Scope & Content:: Includes letter fragments sent between the ACM and the ABCFM, and to and from Ceylon and South India. Size and dimensions of original material: 6 items. This sub-series contains: · EAP971/2/4/1/1 Letters, 1890's · EAP971/2/4/1/2 Letterbook fragment, 1914-1915 · EAP9...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1890-1930
Extent:: 1404 Tiff images

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