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96 x 137 mm. Full length studio portrait of a bearded Cinghalese man posed with an umbrella. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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99 x 142 mm. Head and shoulders studio portrait of a Singhalese woman. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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147x200mm. Half length portrait of two girls, one full face, one in profile.

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279 x 215 mm. A roadside view of the wedding party, posed in front of a bungalow in European style with a tiled roof and porticoed entrance. The bride, groom and wedding party are dressed in European clothes. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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Comprises: four notebooks assembled by Johnston on aspects of law, history and administration in Ceylon; letter-book containing regulations relating to Roman Catholics in Ceylon; copies of law officers and counsels' opinions on various colonial acts. Note that 'Notebook V', extract from statement concerning the arrival of Chalias in Ceylon (presented by Professor Lee alongside the rest of the collection and listed in Donald Simpson's 1975 manuscript catalogue) is missing.

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Diaries, official papers, correspondence and photographs

Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints and others in an album relating to the career of Sir Harry Brittain (1873-1974).These photoraphs were selected by the Librarian from a large collection and have been chosen for their relevance to Sir Harry's Empire/Commonwealth interests. They are by various photographers, including Sir Harry himself; some of these are noted but it is probably that others were also taken by him. Among them are portraits of individuals, groups, travel scenes and some...

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The collection includes Bagnall's account of his evacuation from Singapore during the Second World War immediately before its fall to the Japanese in Feb. 1942. It is accompanied by photographs of the home he occupied at the time.

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101 x 75 mm. Showing Sir William Manning (1863-1932), Governor of Ceylon 1918-25, De la Cour (no information) and Bell's A.D.C. George Lightfoot seated around a table outside a rest house in Ceylon.

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279 x 211 mm. Showing a worker operating a fan belt driven ‘Sirocco’ tea dryer which arrests the fermentation of the leaf (see Y303E/12) and evaporates remaining moisture.

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Quarter-plate. The pole is placed in position before the building commences and will only be removed at the close. Pole is of Rucatoria wood, stripped of bark, and decorated at tip with a piece of palm leaf. When building is finished, Buddhist priest will come and chant sacred words, and take away the luck pole. (Fisher).

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'A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom', the last independent state in Sri Lanka, which had its capital at Kandy, c. 1835, 186 pages; a memorandum on the law of inheritance, 30 pages; rules for administering justice, 25 pages; Sir John Doyley's notes on the Kandyan law of inheritance, 8 pages; Singhalese law of inheritance, etc., 47 pages; and notes on the law of marriage, etc., 30 pages.

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275 x 215 mm. View looking along Skinner's Road, an unsurfaced tree lined thoroughfare at the E side of the central portion of Colombo and running N to S in an arc from the harbour to the lake.

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202x137mm. Showing two small thatched houses set in cleared forest, probably at the same location as the elephant kraal.

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278 x 216 mm. View looking along the line towards where a group of labourers and Europeans are gathered round a breach in the line, probably caused by heavy rainfall. The viaduct referred to is the Allagalla Viaduct, 59.5 miles out from Colombo at a height of 1,120 feet above sea level (see Y303A/18). Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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218 x 277 mm. View looking along the line at Sensation Rock, where a major landslide has deposited large sections of the cliff above onto the track. This landslide took place on 14th July 1869 and interrupted services for 19 days. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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140 x 94 mm. Showing three snake charmers seated on the ground practising their craft. Photographer
unknown, probably Scowen & Co.

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234 x 217 mm. Studio portrait of two Indian snake charmers playing to their snakes.

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188 x 132 mm.

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57 x 94 mm. Rear view of the figure seen in Y303B/76, showing the style of hair dressing and the tortoiseshell comb.

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93 x 129 mm.

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Printed sheet with photographs.

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175 x 139 mm. Showing specimens of various types of plumbago with, in the centre, large lumps of the mineral modelled into the shape of a dagoba.

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216 x 270 mm. Duplicate of Y3022L/128. Photograph probably by W.L.H. Skeen & Co., who advertise 'A series of photographs illustrating scenes and incidents of the elephant kraals of 1870 and 1882, including herds of wild elephants in the jungle (believed to be the first ever photographed)' in the almanac for 1885.

Scope and Contents This file contains notes, transcripts, correspondence, advertisements and guest-lists relating to speeches that Lady Smedley gave to the Sri Lanka Women’s Conference, June 1975; the Levin Plunket Society, October 1976; and the interprovincial conference of The Women's Division Federated Farmers of New Zealand, November 1976. Later speeches deal with her experiences as the wife of a diplomat and her book ‘Partners in diplomacy’ given to the English-Speaking Union, 19 February, 10 April 1991;...