25th July 1814 and Richmond College Galle On the 25th of July 2023, marked the 209th Founders Day of the Richmond College, Galle. A documentary survey conducted by late Ananda Dias Jayasinghe titled FORGOTTEN HISTORY OF RICHMOND COLLEGE unearthed several Methodist Missionary reports, Wesleyan Missionary Society notices and letters of early missionaries including the Journal of Benjamin Clough (one of the first Methodist Missionaries that arrived in Galle on 29th June 1814). WELL PRESERVED DOCUMENTS FOUND The above-mentioned documents mostly not found in the archives of the Methodist Church Headquarters in Colombo, were traced by the late Ananda Dias Jayasinghe which had been safely preserved at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London; Bodleia