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Palm-leaf manuscript collection of Nigel Seeley, consisting of 13 palm leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka. There exists little information on their nature and their content, but they are probably Buddhist works in the Pali language (the language of the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism) dating from the mid 18th to late 19th century CE, and were collected by Nigel Seeley in the mid-late 20th century. Most of them have interesting and varied decorative wooden covers.

Scope and Contents This collection comprises the papers of Colin Legum, an Anti-Apartheid activist and political exile, and later newpaper political correspondent. It includes correspondence files, committee minutes, freelance articles, files in legal document wallets labelled alphabetically, office filing, published periodicals, journals, research files, press cuttings, notes, publications, and newspapers relating to the post-colonial history of many countries mostly in Africa, but also in the Middle East and...

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Photograph of the interior of a tea-leaf withering house in Ceylon [now, known as Sri Lanka] which has rows of para rubber rounds lying on the floor and on shelves being dried.

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Photographs and picture postcards primarily of New Zealand, Hawaii and Sri Lanka, including many of friends and people John and Jewel Baillie met while travelling.

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Photograph of a person standing at a table rolling para rubber "biscuits" with a rolling pen with rows of latex in coagulating pans on the shelf behind on an estate in Ceylon in the early/mid 20th century.

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Illustration of a hand using the "Burgess" patent rubber tapping knife to carve a tree. The text notes that the knife was patented in England, the Straits, and Ceylon.

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Watercolour annotated "Flacourtia P. Galle Oct./61" [This must have been done in Ceylon on Cleghorn's journey from Egypt to Madras in October 1861].

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Photograph of a woman standing in front of some young vines of Landolphia Watsoniana at the [Peradeniya Botanical Gardens, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)] in the early 20th century.