Original consignment, 1942-1992

Component identifier:

Class MS 7176

Extent:

(29 ms boxes, 1 folio box)

Content Summary:

This consignment documents Claasz's schooldays in Ceylon, his employment there as a manager of a tea plantation owned by the Scottish Tea and Lands Company of Ceylon Limited, personal and family life, emigration to Australia in 1972, and managerial jobs in ANU Press, the Australian National Gallery, Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation and Zeilan Ventures. It includes papers on the establishment of tea plantations in Queensland, diaries and notebooks relating to tea planting, crop yields, field notebooks relating to tea planting and other notebooks, school notebooks and certificates, Buddhist palm-leaf manuscript written in old Singhalese script on the subject of astrology, press cuttings, printed items, photographs, notes and articles on tea, personal and business diaries, family and personal letters and some papers of the Scottish Tea and Lands Co., Ceylon.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Original consignment comprises Boxes 1-9; further papers received August 1992 (Boxes 10-29 + folio).

Extent information:

4.8 metres,

Subjects:

Agriculture
Business

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