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Archive Reference (shelfmark) EAP971/5 Language English Name East India Company, 1600-1858

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. EAP971/5/2/7

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/5/2/7
Title:
Alex. Johnson Papers
Scope & Content:
1839 handwritten letter from James L. Melville to Sir Alexander Johnston relaying the Court of Dirctors of the East India Company's decision to approve Johnston's desire to transform a building in Madura into a native school. Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file of 4 pages.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839
Extent:
8 Tiff images

4. EAP971/5/2/12

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/5/2/12
Title:
Alexander Johnstone Papers
Scope & Content:
Includes (1) "Appointment by the Duke and Duchess of Somerset of New Trustees under their Grace's Marriage Settlement" [unopened very fragile document]; (2) document relating a court case between members of the Johnston famly in 1892; (3) "Johnston vs. Campbell Johnston", copy of defendants affi...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1795-1892
Extent:
96 Tiff images

5. EAP971/5/2/18

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

6. EAP971/5/2/65

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/5/2/65
Title:
Alex. Johnston Papers
Scope & Content:
(1) 2pp handwritten notes by Dr. James T. Rutnam; (2) 1837 letter from Sir Alexander Johnston to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Honorable the Court of Directors of the East India Company, regarding the Tamkam house in Madurai; (3) Mss document, "At a Committee of Correspondence, 16th Fe...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1800-1999
Extent:
32 Tiff images

7. EAP971/5/2/110

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/5/2/110
Title:
Scope & Content:
"Copy of Sir Alexander Johnston's evidence relating to the Mackenzie Collection extracted from the minutes of evidence taken before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Affairs of the East India Company, EEB. 14 to July 27, 1832.". Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1832
Extent:
12 Tiff images

8. EAP971/5/2/115

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/5/2/115
Title:
Alex. Johnston Paper
Scope & Content:
(1) "Carnsalloch Estate. Revised schedule of upset prices," 1911, 2pp typed; (2) 2pp mss document concerning the Johnston home in Madurai, Tamkam; (3) 1838 letter written by Sir Alexander Johnston regarding the Tamkam house; (4) 1840 letter written by A.J. regarding the establishment of a native...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838-1911
Extent:
60 Tiff images