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Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP971/5 Language English Name American Ceylon Mission, 1813-

1. EAP971/5

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

2. EAP971/5/2

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

3. EAP971/5/2/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/5/2/2
Title:
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