These are a variety of receipts for rent and rates paid, items purchased by, or services rendered to Thomas Manning during the 1830s. They give some insight into his manner of life in his later years
Manning Thomas 1772-1840Receipt from Billing & Sons Limited, London Printing Works, for the China Society to receive "502 Chinese Architecture".
Billing and SonsRecalling Old Journeys, To Yuan Canjun, Chancellor of Qian, draft translation of Yi jiu you ji Qiao jun Yuan can jun 憶舊游寄憔郡元參軍, a poem by Li Bai 李白. Translated by L.A. Raphals with a copy of the original. Also a further article: Recursion in Li Bai and Zhuangzi by L.A. Raphals and a business card for Lisa Raphals.
Raphals Lisa Ann b 1951Reason and Spontaneity was published by Curzon Press (London) and Barnes and Noble (New York) in 1985. This series includes drafts, correspondence, and reviews concerning the publication.
Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991"Reading Chuang-tzŭ: One Way or Many?" by Miriam Levering. Review article of Graham's Chuang-tzŭ: The Inner chapters and other publications on the Chuang-tzŭ: from Religious Studies Review Vol. 10, Mp.3 , July 1985.
Levering Miriam Lindsey 1913-1991Rationalism and anti-rationalism in pre-Buddhist China was published in Rationality in Question, edited by S. Biderman and Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Leiden: Brill, 1990. This material contains a draft and correspondence about the article.
Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991"Rationalisation of Library collections of RAS" recording the Council's agreement on the broad principles of rationalisation of the Collections and details of areas in which this could proceed. Electronic document.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823- London, EnglandMinutes of General, Special and Anniversary Meetings. They give details of Papers read and lectures given, of Members nominated and elected, and of changes in Council members.
Handwritten and typed minutes in folio-sized leatherbound volume in reasonable condition.
Minutes of General, Special, and Anniversary Meetings. They give details of Papers read and donations presented, of Members nominated and elected, and changes within the Council.
Handwritten Minutes in folio-sized leatherbound book with recent binding.
Minutes of General, Special, and Anniversary Meetings. They give details of Papers read and donations presented, of Members nominated and elected, and changes within the Council.
Handwritten Minutes in folio-sized leatherbound book with recent binding.