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

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/4/15
Title:: St. John's College Magazine
Scope & Content:: Vol.XXXIX December 1944-Vol.XLII December 1947. The magazine is broken up by term and year, each volume listing an academic calender for the term, a brief history of the college, followed by lists of administration, faculty, courses, fees and rules. The balance of each magazine contains an assor...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1944-1947
Extent:: 218 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/4/16
Title:: St. John's College Magazine
Scope & Content:: Vol.XLIII Jubilee Dec. 1948-Vol.LV December 1960. The magazine is broken up by term and year, each volume listing an academic calender for the term, a brief history of the college, followed by lists of administration, faculty, courses, fees and rules. The balance of each magazine contains an ass...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1948-1960
Extent:: 143 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5
Title:: Evelyn Rutnam Institute
Scope & Content:: This collection consists of two parts: (1) print books, and (2) a series of 148 non-sequential numbered files relating to the life, work, and immediate family of Ceylon’s third Chief Justice, Sir Alexander Johnston (1775-1849), a critical advocate of early nineteenth-century Protestant mission t...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Latin, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1781-1983
Extent:: 10649 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/1/1
Title:: William Mather: a sketch of his life and work by one of his sons
Scope & Content:: Published in Jaffna by M. Nalliah and Sons, Printers, 1922. Table of Contents: Part I. The story of his life; II. As others saw him; III. Funeral and friends; IV. The end. William Mather (1851-1920) was a succesful Jaffna business man and prominent Jaffna Christian, educated at the mission schoo...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1922
Extent:: 68 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/1/2
Title:: A brief sketch of the life of Charles Ambrose Lorenz
Scope & Content:: Written by M.S. Mahendran & published by the American Ceylon Mission Press at Tellippalai, 1918. Charles Ambrose Lorenz (1829-1871), a Dutch Burgher born in Matara, was a barrister, member of the Ceylon Legislative Council (1856-1864), and chief editor and proprietor of The Ceylon Examiner (...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1918
Extent:: 62 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/1/3
Title:: The American Mission in Jaffna Ceylon 1920-1921
Scope & Content:: Published by the American Ceylon Mission Press at Tellippalai, 1921. Inside cover tp: The one hundred and fourth Annual Report of the Ceylon Mission of the American Board. Table of contents: Foreward, The missionary staff, General view, Educational work, Medical work, Evangelistic work, The miss...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1921
Extent:: 106 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2
Title:: Alexander Johnston Papers
Scope & Content:: A series of 148 files relating to the life, work and family of Sir Alexander Johnston (1775–1849), the third Chief Justice of Ceylon and a famous orientalist. Johnston was known for pursuing a number of administrative reforms within the British government including the introduction of trial by j...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, Latin, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:: 1781-1983
Extent:: 10413 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/1
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Scope & Content:: Includes (1) article by K. Indrapala titled, "The American Contribution to the modernisation of Tamil Studies: the work of Daniel Poor and his Colleagues; (2) copy of a 12-page article by James Rutnam titled, "The Batticotta Seminary"; (3) the original drafts with handwritten edits of Rutnam's a...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 234 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/2
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Scope & Content:: Includes (1) order form for volumes from the United Church Board for World Ministries in Boston, Mass.; (2) Rutnam's handwritten notes on the American Mission, particularly Jaffna College; (3) typed extract from Fred Field Goodsell's "They Lived Their Faith: An Almanac of Faith, Hope and Love" (...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1969
Extent:: 142 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP971/5/2/3
Title:: American Mission History
Scope & Content:: Includes (1) K.E. Mathiaparanam, K.E. / Three Luminaries of Batticotta Seminary, Jaffna College Misc. Jubilee Number Pp. 12-16; (2) Rutnam, James T. / The Earliest American Impact on Sri Lanka [print, Pp. 69-82]; (3) Manickavasagar, K. (librarian) / Sri la Sri Arumuga Navalar and Rev. Dr. Peter ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20th century
Extent:: 486 Tiff images

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