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Language Tamil Name American Ceylon Mission, 1813- Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. EAP971/2

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP971/2
Title:
தென்னிந்திய திருச்சபை யாழ்ப்பாண மறைமாவட்டம்
Scope & Content:
This collection consists mostly of manuscript materials from the establishment of the American Ceylon Mission (ACM) in 1816 by the American Ceylon Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) to the transfer of the ACM to the Church of South India (CSI) in 1947. These materials include ni...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English and Tamil
Date Range:
1780-2000
Extent:
32063 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. EAP971/2/4

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

4. 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

5. 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