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Language Tamil Subject Administration Level [36] Series

1. EAP835/5/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP835/5/1
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 ju...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1781-1878
Extent:
406 Tiff images

2. EAP971/2/1

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

3. EAP971/2/2

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

4. EAP971/2/3

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

5. EAP971/2/4

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

6. EAP971/2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2/5
Title:
Ninteenth Century Sundry Mission Reports, c. 1840-1901
Scope & Content:
From Professor Bernard Bate's finding aid: "These represent a coherent categorical unit based on uniformity of subject matter, shelf proximity, and uniformity of paper and binding.... They consist primarily of mss. notebooks without covers or bindings." (2005). The first 8 files from this series...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1840-1901
Extent:
2856 Tiff images

7. EAP971/2/6

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2/6
Title:
Twentieth Century Sundry Mission Reports, 1919-1937
Scope & Content:
From Professor Bernard Bate's finding aid: "These represent a coherent categorical unit based on uniformity of subject matter, shelf proximity, and uniformity of paper bindings…. They consists primarily of mimeo copies of typed reports from the American Mission, Jaffna College, Uduvil Womens' Bo...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1919-1937
Extent:
40443 Tiff images

8. 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

9. EAP981/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP981/1/1
Title:
Letters and Correspondence
Scope & Content:
This series contains letters and varieties of documents. They bear testimony of the activity and functioning of the Jaffna Diocese, also on pilgrimage and festivals, public instruction, various reports to the Bishop's office and to the government, purchase of land, schools etc. This series cont...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Portuguese, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1857-1947
Extent:
42,642 TIFF images

10. EAP981/1/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP981/1/2
Title:
Sermons Documents
Scope & Content:
This series contains preparatory copies for sermons, preaches for retreats, commentaries on Tamil writings. These writings are in French, often with Sinhala or Tamil terminology inside the French text. This series contains the following 37 files: EAP981/1/2/1: Sermons, prayers, retreats, descri...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, French, Latin, Portuguese, Sinhalese, and Tamil
Date Range:
1868-1934
Extent:
8,613 TIFF images