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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/15
Title:: Alexander Johnstone Papers
Scope & Content:: Photocopy of correspondance between English writer and philanthropist Hannah More (1745-1833) and Sir Alexander Johnston, 1818. Includes printed copy of a texts presented at the Theatre at Strawberry-Hill in November 1800 and a 1976 letter from W.S. Lewis of the Lewis Walpole Library addressed t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1800-1976
Extent:: 152 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/16
Title:: Alexander Johnstone Papers
Scope & Content:: Typed copies of letters or reports written by Sir Alexander Johnston detailing the various groups living in Ceylon and the importance of trial by jury according to the differences between these groups, along with A.J.'s other measures as Chief Justice of Ceylon. Undated. Size and dimensions of ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1800-1999
Extent:: 16 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/17
Title:: Alexander Johnstone Papers
Scope & Content:: Typed documents relating to the promise made by the Prince Regent (?) of Britain to Sir Alexander Johnston vis-à-vis a baronet, and to the failure to deliver on that promise. Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file of 34 pages.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1813
Extent:: 38 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/18
Title:: Alexander Johnston Paper
Scope & Content:: Printed document entitled "Legend of the Heart of the Great Marquis of Montrose" written by Alexander Johnston to his daughters. James Graham, the Marquis of Montrose, a maternal ancestror of A.J., was a Scottish Royalist. After his imprisonment and death in 1650, the Marquis' family embalmed hi...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1954
Extent:: 22 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/19
Title:: Alexander Johnston Papers
Scope & Content:: Primarily materials related to Sir Alexander Johnston's investigation and legal battle over a property in Madurai, South India named Fort Defiance or Tamkam (an anglicization of the Tamil tamukkam). Includes: (1) 1830 letter to A.J. by W. MacLeod, providing background on Tamkam, A.J.'s family's ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1830-1906
Extent:: 82 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/20
Title:: Alexander Johnston Papers
Scope & Content:: Letter to Dr. James T. Rutnam from Sri Lankan architect Ismeth Raheem, including four documents: (1) View from Sir Alexander Johnston's Residence by Copley, (2) Days of old in Ceylon and Sir Alexander Johnston--from the MLR Vol.II p.92/93, (3) Transaction of the Royal Asiatic Society GB and IR f...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1983
Extent:: 58 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/21
Title:: Alexander Johnston Papers
Scope & Content:: (1) 1814 mss letter from Will. Wilson to Sir Alexander Johnston; (2) 1815 mss letter; (3) 1814 mss letter; (4) 1815 mss letter from A.J. to His MA.J.esty's Advocate Fiscal; (5) 1815 mss letter to A.J. concerning the selection of laborers from the Colombo prison; (6) 1854 mss letter addressed to ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1803-1854
Extent:: 134 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/22
Title:: Alexander Johnston Papers
Scope & Content:: (1) loose handwritten notes; (2) fragment of a letter sent to Dr. James T. Rutnam by a Campbell-Johnson regarding a painting of Sir Alexander Johnson as a boy; (3) letter to Rutnam from A.J. Broome, Director of Requests and Textbooks Department at the British Museum detailing a bibliographical r...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1800-1956
Extent:: 64 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/23
Title:: Alexander Johnston Papers
Scope & Content:: Statement by Sir Alexander Johnston about his work with customary law in Ceylon; other enumerations of A.J.'s accomplishements. Paper is very damaged. Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file of 60 pages.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1807-1829
Extent:: 64 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/24
Title:: Alexander Johnston Papers
Scope & Content:: (1) mss letter sent by Sir Alexander Johnston in March 1841; (2) 1901 letter addressed to Louis Campbell-Johnston from his sister, Charlie, about a photograph of Lady William Campbell; (3) various mss notes or parts of letters; (4) 183[?] letter from Edwin Norris To A.J. regarding an arabic-lang...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Latin
Date Range:: 1790-1901
Extent:: 226 Tiff images

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