Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1926-2018 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
Textual, graphic, works of art, 4.93 m
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This series consists of a wide variety of material relating to Professor Sugunasiri’s personal and family activities. Prominent amongst this are copies of numerous variants of his curriculum vitae, other personal information, press clippings, certificates, diaries, files on family activities, appointment books, a wall calendar, and files on his and family travels. The diaries are seldom full diaries; most, like the “journal entries (sometimes dubbed ‘day books’)”, consist of a combination of activities and ideas scattered sporadically across a particular year. The series ends with six scrapbooks compiled by his father, S. H. Sauris Silva, with press clippings, almost all in Sinhala, from Sri Lankan newspapers, covering the years 1926-1978, a file on his death, and on attempt to publish one of his manuscripts.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The arrangement is by type of material and generally chronological within that.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Restricted in part. The following files are restricted until the death of the donor:
B2015-0024/boxes 004, 005, 006, 007, 008, and 009, and box 010, file 10. All other files are open.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- Sinhala
Script of material
Language and script notes
Scrapbooks compiled by his father, S. H. Sauris Silva are almost all in Sinhala.