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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;...

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278 x 211 mm. Showing porters bringing in baskets of beans which other workers are spreading out on the drying platforms of ‘barbecues’.

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278 x 210 mm. Showing rolled tea (see Y303E/14) being laid out on long mats for fermentation before firing (see Y303E/15).

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162 slides.

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Paintings and drawings by school pupils in Africa and India and a selection of artwork from other countries, some mounted on cardboard. The collection includes work by pupils of George Stevens, a friend of Richard Carline, who taught at a school in Africa before the Second World War. A covering note by Unity Spencer explaining the origins of the collection is with RCMS 58/1.

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A view showing a wooden canoe in the shallow water of the Tank.

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A view looking towards the Kiri or Milk dagoba.

Scope and Contents This file of loose material accompanies the scrapbook RCMS 389/7/1. It contains a bundle of letters received by Smedley upon the announcement of his appointment as High Commissioner, Sri Lanka, from Alioune Badara M’Bengue (Senegalese ambassador), 29 November 1972; Sule D. Kolo (Nigerian ambassador), 30 November 1972; R.W. Katenga-Kaunda (Malawian ambassador), 16 November 1972; Sir Leckraz Teelock (Mauritian ambassador), 13 November 1972; Iyassu Mengesha (Ethiopian ambassador), 10 November...

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This is a large album containing official and personal correspondence, newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to Smedley’s tenure in Sri Lanka and Maldives, beginning with his official letter of appointment and presentation of diplomatic credentials (circa 60 sheets).

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A view of the house and garden of the estate.

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A view showing a worker tapping a rubber tree.

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A view showing a man undressing for a swim beside a series of cascades.

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'Abhayagiriya (Jeta-vana-rama) Dagoba at Anu-radha-pura. 2nd Century, B.C.

The great stone statue of Parakrama-Bahu at Pollon-naru-a [i.e. Polonnaruwa]. 12th Century, A.D.'.

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191x132mm. View looking along the wooden stockade, with men holding staves posted at intervals along it. The watcher's hut is in the left foreground.

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195x138mm. Showing part of the perimeter fence of the elephant kraal, with European spectators gathered on a thatched wooden platform at the right.

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279 x 214 mm. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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288 x 225 mm. Showing three stone bulls in a clearing. Photograph probably Joseph Lawton.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

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243 x 176 mm. View in the Ceylonese quarter of Colombo, with thatched houses lining the roadway and a number of people posed in the foreground. The caption reads 'This is one of the streets of Colombo. The trees are very green and full of leaf all the year round. The houses are the native houses'.

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278x210mm. View looking along an unidentified street lined with houses and shops.