Archive / Tag: Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

  • Bell Family Papers: Box 2
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    Papers of the Bell family releating to archaeology in Ceylon [Sri Lanka]; history of the Archaeological Survey; biographies of figures in Sri Lankan archaeology. Donated by Ms Heather Bell. File […]
  • Green, J.J. Papers
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    Donated by Mrs Joyce Phillips A collection of papers from a household in Bombay [Mumbai], c.1890-1910. Includes family account books, books of medical advice, papers of the Indo-British Institution. 2 […]
  • Johnston, A. Papers
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    Sir Alexander Johnston, administrator. Describing the state of administration in Ceylon [Sri Lanka] in 1806. Small Collections Box 14 Paper sent by Sir Alexander Johnston to Charles Fox, head of […]
  • Woolf Papers
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    Leonard Woolf Xeroxed copies of TS: Letters to Leonard Woolf by E.W. Perera (member of Ceylon Legislative Council 1921) and D.B. Jayatilaka, (Minister for Home Affairs, Ceylon 1931), who were […]
  • Wilson, I. Papers: Box 2
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    Ceylon Survey Department: Department survey regulations. First ed. by I.F. Wilson, with F.H. Gunesekera and L.G.O. Woodhouse. Colombo, Government Press, 1938. Technical instructions. First ed. by H.A.S. Smith, with L.G.O. […]
  • Wilson, I. Papers: Box 1
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    Given by Mrs. I. Wilson Brohier, R.L. Land, maps and surveys. Vol. I. A review of the evidence of land surveys as practised in Ceylon from earliest known periods and […]
  • Wentworth-Reeve Papers
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    Given by Mrs. P. Wentworth-Reeve Small Collections Box 25 U.P., Ceylon 1857-1961 Xerox copy (8pp) of a letter or copy of an article in MS entitled, An account of the […]
  • Webb Papers
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    F.R.G. Webb Report on the Jaffna Peninsula Lagoon Scheme, by F.R.G. Webb, M.C., B.Sc. Eng. (B’ham), M.I.C.E., F.R.G.S., Divisional Irrigation Engineer. Colombo, Ceylon Government Press, 1945. 35 pp. (Proof copy […]
  • Turner, B. Papers
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    Given by Mrs Beatrice M. Coates (nee Turner). Memoir, ‘Life was like that: the anguish of a colonial-born child’, covering the years from her birth in Ceylon in 1926 to […]
  • Stephens Papers: Boxes 7-10
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    I.M. Stephens. Deputy Director, Bureau of Public Information, Govt. of India 1930-32; Director, 1932-37; Assistant Editor, Statesman of Calcutta 1937; Editor 1942-51; Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge 1952-58; Historian, Pakistan Government […]