Letters relating to antiquities in Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
Reference code
SAL/01/02/82/01
Title
Letters relating to antiquities in Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
Date
1898
Level of description
file
Scope and content
Letters related to the preservation of antiques on the ‘Island of Ceylon’ (now Sri Lanka). There is a full draft of the bill entitled ‘An Ordinance for the Better Preservation of the Antiquities of the Island’. There are a number of letters between Harry C P Bell, Archaeological Commissioner for Ceylon, and H L Crawford discussing details and terms of the proposed bill.
Creator
Bell, Harry Charles Purvis (1851-1937), civil servant and Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon
Crawford, Henry Leighton (1855-1931), colonial administrator in Ceylon
Crawford, Henry Leighton (1855-1931), colonial administrator in Ceylon