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              Archaeology Expedition Notes
              GB 891 QW-QW/1 · Series · 1923 - 1939
              Part of Papers of Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales

              Hand-written journals documenting travel, with observations, and notes about fieldwork. They contain materials in these categories : Journal of Travel and observation H.G.Q Wales 1923-1928 : Vol I and Vol II Greater India Research Expedition Field Note Book, 1935 Greater India Research Expedition Season 1935-1936 Greater India Research Expedition, Journal of Excavations 1935, Also a continuation of the rough draft of 1937/9 results The Greater India Research Committee Malayan Campaign 1937-8, Field Note Book

              Wales Horace Geoffrey Quaritch 1900-1981 Archaeologist
              GB 891 TM-TM/9-TM/9/3 · File · [1807-1817]
              Part of Papers of Thomas Manning, Chinese Scholar, First English visitor to Lhasa, Tibet

              Chinese notebook, small, green cloth covered, including original pencil. Contains Chinese vocabularies; 2 sketches of Dalai Lama; shopping lists and memos; medical notes; list of English words beginning 'ab'; diary notes on leaving Lhasa; notes on literature - French, Greek, etc.; mathematical problems. Inserted are loose sheets of paper - more diary notes; numerical list.

              GB 891 TM-TM/9-TM/9/5 · File · [1807-1817]
              Part of Papers of Thomas Manning, Chinese Scholar, First English visitor to Lhasa, Tibet

              Chinese notebook, small, green cloth covered. Contains notes on Chinese grammar and language with comparisons with English language; comments on the use of Greek in Homer's Iliad. Back cover has pencil sketch of [Tibetan/Chinese house]. Loose sheets include 2 drafts of a love poem dated 15 October 1812; some Latin sentences; title "Notes on Lassa" with mathematical calculations on reverse.

              GB 891 TM-TM/9-TM/9/4 · File · [1807-1817]
              Part of Papers of Thomas Manning, Chinese Scholar, First English visitor to Lhasa, Tibet

              Chinese notebook, small, green cloth covered. Contains notes of a linguistic nature in Latin, English and French. Inserted are several loose sheets of paper including a receipt in Chinese dated 1816; Latin and English notes; 2 sheets of mathematical problems, one of which is on the reverse of a letter to Thomas Manning from [Lowe Ammo] concerning payment, dated P.N. Island (Penang) 23 February 1813.

              This Series contains 52 letters between Thomas Manning and his father, William Manning, Rector of Diss. These date from 1785, when Thomas was a child on holiday, until 1810, the year of William Manning's death There are a further 5 letters between Thomas Manning and other family members.

              Manning Thomas 1772-1840 Chinese scholar, Traveller. First Englishman to Lhasa, Tibet