Typed documents relating to the promise made by the Prince Regent (?) of Britain to Sir Alexander Johnston vis-à-vis a baronet, and to the failure to deliver on that promise. Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file of 34 pages.
(1) loose handwritten notes; (2) fragment of a letter sent to Dr. James T. Rutnam by a Campbell-Johnson regarding a painting of Sir Alexander Johnson as a boy; (3) letter to Rutnam from A.J. Broome, Director of Requests and Textbooks Department at the British Museum detailing a bibliographical r...
Statement by Sir Alexander Johnston about his work with customary law in Ceylon; other enumerations of A.J.'s accomplishements. Paper is very damaged. Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file of 60 pages.
(1) Report on a lecture entitled "Sir Alexander Johnstone" given by Dr. Andreas Nell; (2) various loose photocopies of a table of contents; (3) letters between Sri Lankan architect Ismeth Raheem and Dr. James T. Rutnam concerning sources about Alexander Johnston; (4) document entitled, "Portrait...
(1) "A printed collection of all the Ceylon Government despatches, Minutes of Council, Addresses from the natives of the Island and resolutions passed by the different Public Societies in England, expressive of the high approbation entertained by the Government & the natives, of the conduct ...
14pp letter to Lord Goderich [most likely Viscount Godreich, who was Secretary of State for War and Colonies at the time and later became the Prime Minister of Great Britain] written by Sir Alexander Johnston in 1832. Mss. Content relates to A.J.'s classification of caste as a political rather t...
(1) BOAC 1967 tourist guide of Scotland; (2) addresses of Rev. Father Michael Campbell-Johnson S.J. and Mr. Christopher Campbell-Johnson; (3) typed text on Carnsalloch compiled by the county librarian; (4) typed copy of 1849 letter to P.F. Johnston from Sgd. Chas Ollier; (5) typed genealogical t...
(1) Mss. Description of various members of Sir Alexander Johnston's family, including his father Samuel Johnston and his grandfather, Alexander Johnston; (2) 6pp of handwritten notes, likely done by a great-greadson of A.J.'s; (3) 10pp mss. handwritten notes about A.J.. Size and dimensions of o...
(1) photocopy of mss document about the Pearl Fishery; (2) Photcopy of "An Account of the Cinnamon Tree in Ceylon". Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file of 76 pages.
(1) mss letter to Sir Alexander Johnston; (2) newspaper clipping on the Count d'Hervilly; (3) copy of "Routenburn and Nithsdale School Annual," January 1907; (4) extract from the Madras Gazette, 24th December 1796. Size and dimensions of original material: 1 file of 22 pages.