Tennent, Sir James Emerson. COLLECTION OF PAPERS RELATING TO CEYLON comprising a bundle of c.55 letters, most significantly including a series of 32 autograph letters signed by Lord Torrington, Governor of Ceylon, to Tennent, on the animosity of certain members of the Ceylon civil service towards Tennent and Torrington, and more general administrative matters, 1846-50; c.15 letters on the Christian Church in Ceylon, 1849-55; Tennent's draft notes relating to a Parliamentary Enquiry into the administration and government of Ceylon, most with corrections and revisions, including speeches, notes on Ceylon, its culture and administration, defences of his controversial actions under Torrington's administration, and notes on his private correspondence with Lord Torrington, in excess of 200 pages, c.1850; printed Parliamentary reports on Ceylon, 1848-50, and three issues of the Ceylon Overland Observer, 1849; photographic carte-de-visite of Tennent; the collection housed in two blue collector's folding boxes with red morocco labels gilt
Tennent, Sir James Emerson. COLLECTION OF PAPERS RELATING TO CEYLON comprising a bundle of c.55 letters, most significantly including a series of 32 autograph letters signed by Lord Torrington, Governor of Ceylon, to Tennent, on the animosity of certain members of the Ceylon civil service towards Tennent and Torrington, and more general administrative matters, 1846-50; c.15 letters on the Christian Church in Ceylon, 1849-55; Tennent's draft notes relating to a Parliamentary Enquiry into the administration and government of Ceylon, most with corrections and revisions, including speeches, notes on Ceylon, its culture and administration, defences of his controversial actions under Torrington's administration, and notes on his private correspondence with Lord Torrington, in excess of 200 pages, c.1850; printed Parliamentary reports on Ceylon, 1848-50, and three issues of the Ceylon Overland Observer, 1849; photographic carte-de-visite of Tennent; the collection housed in two blue collector's folding boxes with red morocco labels gilt
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