"Some remarks on the Relationship between China and Mongolia" by Professor C. R. Bawden, published by The China Society in 1974.
Sans titreCollections information and engagement connected to our Manuscripts collections.
Sans titreCorrespondence connected with the organisation of Lectures:
- Correspondence with Dr D. L. Snellgrove, 9 items, dated 30 July 1964 - 6 November 1964. These include correspondence from The Education and Scientific Officer, India House, the Royal Afghan Embassy, and the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia about attending the event.
- Correspondence with E.H.S. Simmonds, 3 items, dated 30 July 1964 - 2 September 1964.
- Correspondence with Miss E.M. Boyce, 14 items, dated 13 October 1964 - 17 May 1965.
- Correspondence with J. Burton-Page, 3 items, dated 21 October 1964 - 17 December 1964.
- Correspondence with Dr J. Elfenbein, 6 items, dated 6 November 1964 - 11 June 1965.
- Correspondence with H.E. Richardson, 1 item, dated 6 November 1964.
- Correspondence with Professor E.G. Pulleybank, 8 items, dated 6 November 1964 - 9 April 1965.
- Correspondence with Dr Cheng Te-kun, 6 items, dated 30 November 1964 - 15 February 1965.
- Correspondence with Dr Carmen Blacker, 7 items, dated 11 December 1964 - 15 March 1965.
- Correspondence with Dr I.M.P. Raeside, 8 items, dated 2 March 1965 - 15 April 1966.
- Correspondence with Dr C.R. Bawden, 13 items, dated 2 March 1965 - 13 June 1966.
- Correspondence with Professor W.B. Emery, 6 items, dated 2 March 1965 - 24 May 1966.
- Correspondence with Yigael Yadin, 10 items, dated 5 March 1965 - 21 November 1966.
- Correspondence with Dr G. de Casparie, 10 items, dated 8 March 1965 - 21 December 1966.
- Correspondence with Dr K.M. Kenyon, 5 items, dated 11 March 1965 - 15 March 1966.
- Correspondence with Professor Owen Lattimore, 6 items, dated 15 March 1965 - 16 December 1965.
- Correspondence with Ralph Russell, 7 items, dated 15 March 1965 - 22 February 1966.
- Correspondence with Basil W. Robinson, 5 items, dated 20 May 1965 - 26 October 1965.
- Correspondence with Professor G.H. Luce, 1 item, dated 22 July 1965.
- Correspondence with Professor D. Twitchett, 8 items, dated 24 January 1966 - 13 January 1967.
- Correspondence with Dr S.M. Stern, 3 items, dated 14 July 1967 - 18 July 1967.
Correspondence, articles, engagement with and research information about the Manuscript collections:
- Letter concerning the identification of Tamil, Singhalese and other manuscripts and Copper plate inscriptions. The author of the letter had been involved in creating handlists after L.D. Barnett and others had completed much of the identification. The letter explains the process and some of what was discovered but the signature is unreadable. Handwritten, 3 pieces, undated [1950s].
- Correspondence between Charles Bawden, School of Oriental and African Studies, and Miss Jill Davies, Assistant Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society concerning the Tibetan manuscripts donated to the Society by Robert Yuille. The letters give provenance of their arrival at the Society and identification of what they are. Typed, 11 pieces, dated 7 March 1977 - 18 April 1978.
- Context information for the Society's manuscript of the Dictionnaire Tartare-Mantchou François by Father Joseph Amyot. Typed, 2 pieces, undated.
- Context information for some of the Society's Chinese manuscripts. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 28 July 1977.
- 'Bustan as-salatin' - information concerning this document in printed and manuscript forms. These include Raffles Malay 8 and Raffles Malay 42. Typed in Indonesian and English, 2 pieces, undated.
- 'A Qur'an from the East African Coast' by Simon Digby, Honorary Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society - a copy of an article from Art and Archaeology Research papers, June 1975, giving details of a Qur'an (RAS Arabic 12a) presented to the Society by F.F. Arbuthnot c.1900. Photocopy, 8 pieces, dated June 1975.
- 'Paper and Gold: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Indonesian Archipelago - An exhibition in The British Library, 11 July to 27 October 1990' - pamphlet produced in connexion with the exhibition to explain about Malay and Javanese manuscripts. The Society lent some manuscripts for the exhibition. Printed pamphlet, dated 1990.
- Correspondence and articles by Jacqueline Filliozat concerning the Society's Pali manuscripts. The articles are entitled, 'Survey of the Pali manuscript collection in the Royal Asiatic Society, December 1993', 'Survey of the Pali manuscript collection in the Royal Asiatic Society, December 1993- July 1994', `Projet d'exposition ou de présentation des plus beaux mss. en Pali de la RAS', 'Trois nouveaux fragments manuscrits du Dasavatthuppakarana, Trois recensions indochinoises échelonnées sur Trois siècles (1648-1948 A.D.)' and 'Transcriptions des fragments concernant le Dasavatthu d'après les manuscrits FEMC PALI A 20, RAS BURMESE 64, SA. KHMER 16 & 18 avec les concordances à notre précédente édition: J. Ver Eecke, Le Dasavatthuppakarana, PEFEO CVIII, Paris 1976'. Three handwritten letters in French, dated 3 January 1994 - 15 February 1995. Computer printed manuscripts, 98 pieces.
- Correspondence between Dr J.D. Smith, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, J. Clifford Wright, School of Oriental and African Studies, Paul Dundas, Department of Sanskrit, University of Edinburgh, and information concerning some of the Society's Sanskrit manuscripts. Typed, 5 pieces, dated 9 December 1996 - 21 March 1997.
- Letter from Toshihito Kimura, Professor of International Buddhist University, Kyoto, Japan, to the President of the Royal Asiatic Society to thank the Society for use of Sanskrit Manuscript 61 and to send his article, 'The Sanskrit Manuscript of Sitatapatra-Dharani in the Royal Asiatic Society'. The articles is with the letter. Typed, 10 pieces, dated 29 January 2001.
- Letter from Michael Pollock, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, to Colleen Schafroth, Director, Maryhill Museum of Art, concerning the manuscript, RAS Persian 211, a Treatise on Chess. With the letter is information about the manuscript. Four pieces, typed and copied, dated 20 May 2001.
- 'The Jaipur-Related Documents deposited with the Royal Asiatic Society by Dr Michael Willis' by Rima Hooja - list and description of Jaipur manuscripts. Typed, 5 pieces, dated 16 - 18 June 2003.
- Descriptions of the manuscripts Raffles Java 17 and Raffles Java 18 in the Society's collections. Typed in French, 4 pieces, dated November 2008.
- 'Report on the Turkish manuscript collection in the Royal Asaitic Society' by Dr Evrim Binbas, Royal Holloway University of London. Typed description of these manuscripts, 5 pieces, prepared for the Library Committee Meeting, 30 September 2010.
- Copies of emails between Kathy Lazenbatt, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, and Dr Edeltraud Harzer, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas, concerning identification of Sanskrit manuscripts. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 8 April 2011.
- Publicity Material concerned with the 'Tales of the Malay World' Exhibition held at the National Library Building from 18 August 2017 - 25 February 2018 in which manuscripts from the Royal Asiatic Society were shown. These are a programme of events, exhibition guides in English and Malay - all printed pamphlets; a copy of Muse SG, No.36, Vol.10, Iss.0; with the article 'Tales of the Malay World' about the exhibition; and a copy of biblioasia, Jan-March 2018, with the article, 'Manuscripts from our Global Past' about the exhibition.
- Copy of email from Peter Carey to Annabel Gallop concerning Javanese names, typed, 1 piece, dated 22 July 2022.
- Letter from Devashan Kunasingham to Nancy Charley, Royal Asiatic Society Archivist, concerning the name and description of RAS Tamil MS. 14. Typed, 1 piece, dated 21 March 2024.
The Papers of Thomas Manning were acquired by the Society in 2015 but before this acquisition the Society received enquiries as to where his Papers might be. Since the acquisition the papers have been the subject of both research and engagement. This is reflected in this subseries:
- Copy of a 'Report on the MSS etc. of T. Manning' by Edward B. Harris, dated 21 February 1900. This document lists papers in a box given to Harris on 31 January for his assessment. The copy of the list was provided by Mike Manning in 2016, 17 pieces.
- Script of Travellers' Tales, John Gielgud as Thomas Manning in 'A journey through Tibet, 1811-1812', first recorded 14 July 1966 and transmitted on 16 August 1966 on BBC Home Service. This copy was sent to the Society by Mike Manning in 2016, 10 pieces. A recording of the programme can be heard on our Digital Library: https://royalasiaticcollections.org/sir-john-gielgud-reading-thomas-mannings-narrative-of-his-travels-in-tibet/.
- Correspondence between Charles Bawden and Diana Crawford, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, concerning the whereabouts of the papers of Thomas Manning. Typed and handwritten, 5 pieces, dated 7 September 1972 - 16 October 1972.
- Correspondence between Mary Bellhouse and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning material for her biography of Thomas Manning. Typed and handwritten, 14 pieces, dated 22 January 1997 - 23 March 2013.
- 'First Englishman in Lhasa: intimate letters reveal story of unsung explorer' by Jason Burke, published in Guardian online 13 October 2015. Downloaded article, 3 pieces.
- National Heritage Memorial Fund Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended March 2016, containing the article, 'The lost papers of Thomas Manning'. The NHMF provided significant funding for the purchase of the papers.
- The Times Literary Supplement, 29 April 2016, containing the article 'After the fashion of their country: Thomas Manning and the early British study of China' by Edward Weech, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, and Nancy Charley, Royal Asiatic Society Archivist.
- China Daily, 2 August 2017, with the article 'Archive to shed light on Briton's Chinese adventure' by Cecily Liu concerning the acquisition of the Manning papers.
- 'Ancestry of Thomas Manning' - biographical details provided by Mike Manning. Typed, 2 pages, dated September 2017.
- Genealogical tree of the Manning family. Copy of a tree created by Deborah Manning.
- The Charles Lamb Society Programme 2017-18 detailing the talk 'travelling Romanticism: Thomas Manning in England, France and China' delivered by Edward Weech, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian on 14 October 2017 at the Society's premises.
- Copy of the article 'All the beauties of the Road: Thomas Manning's Romantic Visions, from the Lakes to Tibet, 1799-1812' by Edward Weech, published in The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Spring 2018.
- Programme for the Paris Symposium: Exiles, Emigrés and Expatriates in Romantic-Era paris and London, 12-13 April 2018 at which Edward Weech delivered the paper, 'Paris to a stranger is a desert full of knaves & whores - like London: Thomas Manning's Romantic Europe, 1802-1815'.
- Programme for The Friends of Coleridge Biennial Summer Conference, 6 - 9 August 2018 with abstract for the paper. 'Far beyond Coleridge or any man in the power of impressing: Thomas Manning and the Coleridge Circle', delivered by Edward Weech, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian.
- Lineage and Legacy: Thomas Manning and the Early British Study of China, 1800-1830' by Edward Weech, copy of the thesis submitted for the degree of PhD at the centre of Culture, Literary and Post-Colonial Studies, SOAS, University of London, 2020.
- Copy of 'Slow Boat to China' by Robert Bickers - a review of Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning by Edward Weech, Manchester University Press 2022. Review taken from Literary Review, March 2023.
- Publicity Posters for talks given by Edward Weech concerning Thomas Manning at the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica, Hunan university of Science and Technology, and Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong. Three pieces, dated 2023.
Correspondence connected with the organisation of Lectures:
- Correspondence with Dr Klaus Fischer, 12 items, dated 25 March 1969 - 21 March 1971.
- Correspondence concerning a lecture by Dr J.C. Marr, held jointly with the Linnean Society, 22 items, dated 30 April 1969 - 25 September 1970.
- Correspondence concerning a lecture by Dr R.S. McGregor, 4 items, dated 7 May 1969 - 15 May 1970.
- Correspondence with Miss Margaret N. Bainbridge, 4 items dated 28 April 1970 - 9 August 1971.
- Correspondence with H.T. Norris, 6 items, dated 28 April 1970 - 9 August 1971.
- Correspondence with Dr Skillend, 5 items, dated 28 April 1970 - 13 July 1970.
- Correspondence with Professor W.E. Emery, 3 items, dated 7 May 1970 - 13 July 1970.
- Correspondence with Dr J.C. Harle, 5 items, dated 27 May 1970 - 3 November 1970.
- Correspondence with Dr G.B. Milner, 5 items, dated 27 May 1970 - 15 January 1971.
- Correspondence with G. Seager, 10 items, dated 5 June 1970 - 21 December 1970.
- Correspondence with Dr J.D. Latham, 3 items, dated 17 June 1970 - 13 July 1970.
- Correspondence with Sir Ralph Turner, 1 item, dated 26 June 1970.
- Correspondence with Dr F.R. Allchin, 2 items, dated 31 July 1970.
- Correspondence with Dr James Dickie, 4 items, dated 27 May 1971 - 10 August 1971.
- Correspondence with Dr J.G. Coates, 10 items, dated 27 May 1971 - 17 March 1972.
- Correspondence with Hugh Richardson, 1 item, dated 6 June 1971.
- Correspondence with Professor Harry Smith, 4 items, dated 22 June 1971 - 9 August 1971.
- Correspondence with Professor C. Dowsett, 9 items, dated 1 July 1971 - 25 July 1974.
- Correspondence with B.D. Doe, 3 items, dated 13 July 1971 - 9 August 1971.
- Correspondence with Helen W. Brown, 3 items, dated 21 July 1971 - 2 August 1971.
- Correspondence with R.W. Skelton, 4 items, dated 9 August 1971 - 20 January 1972.
- Confirmation of lecture by Anthony Hutt, 1 item, dated 9 December 1971.
- Correspondence with D.J. Duncanson, 4 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 28 July 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor P.L. Gupta, 2 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 5 May 1972.
- Correspondence with Dr John Boardman, 2 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 25 April 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor B. Lewis, 3 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 1 May 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr R.D. Barnett, 7 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 8 December 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor James Barr, 5 items, dated 20 April 1972 - 4 September 1972.
- Correspondence with David James, 4 items, dated 31 May 1972 - 22 February 1973.
- Correspondence with Professor Mary Boyce, 3 items, dated 1 June 1972 - 20 July 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor J.B. Segal, 3 items, dated 6 October 1972 - 13 May 1974.
- Correspondence with Dr Carmen Blacker, 6 items, dated 7 April 1972 - 19 December 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor Maurice Freedman, 4 items, dated 23 October 1972 - 11 July 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr M.A. Shaban, 9 items, dated 23 October 1972 - 12 June 1973.
- Correspondence with F.E. Thompson, 1 item, dated 14 November 1972.
- Correspondence with Professor C.R. Bawden, 8 items, dated 5 December 1972 - 12 August 1974.
- Correspondence with Sir John Pilcher, 2 items, dated 21 January 1973 - 23 January 1973.
- Correspondence with John Leach, 5 items, dated 3 February 1973 - 7 May 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr E.D. O'Flaherty, 4 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr Michael Loewe, 3 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 16 May 1973.
- Correspondence with John Ayers, 5 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 3 October 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr May H. Beattie, 14 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 18 March 1974.
- Correspondence with Professor A.F.L. Beeston, 3 items, dated 1 May 1973 - 6 June 1973.
- Correspondence with Sir Gerard Clauson, 3 items, dated 15 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
- Correspondence with Professor C.E. Bosworth, 3 items, dated 21 May 1973 - 13 June 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr R.F. Gombrich, 3 items, dated 22 May 1973 - 26 September 1973.
- Correspondence with Professor V.L. Menage, 3 items, dated 29 June 1973 - 31 May 1974.
- Correspondence with Professor W.N. Arafat, 2 items, dated 31 July 1973 - 2 August 1973.
- Correspondence with Dr W.G. Archer, 5 items, dated 30 April 1974 - 3 September 1974.
- Correspondence with Professor E.J.H. Corner, 5 items, dated 30 April 1974 - 25 July 1974.
- Correspondence with Dr John Hansman, 1 item, dated 30 April 1974.
- Correspondence with P.T. Denwood, 4 items, dated 4 June 1974 - 25 July 1974.
- Correspondence with Dr Susan Skilliter, 4 items, dated 25 June 1974 - 30 July 1974.
- Correspondence with Professor D. Wiseman, 2 items, dated 25 June 1974 - 8 July 1974.
- Correspondence with Dr E. Sollberger, 3 items, dated 9 July 1974 - 30 July 1974.
- Internal correspondence regarding lectures, 7 items, dated 24 January 1971 - 15 August 1974.
- Material for the Minorsky Memorial Lecture, 1977.
Information about, and evidence of engagement with the archival collections of the Society. For collections with a significant amount of material, a separate subseries was created.
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