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These are six small cards with drawings and inscriptions by Lady Jones. Each measures 7.8cm x 12cm with sketches in pencil and watercolour. There is a pencil sketch of a sanyasi, 2 watercolour pictures of Ramlochan, William Jones' Sanskrit teacher, sketches of a buffalo and a tiger, and of a fight compound.

Excerpt from The Weekend Telegraph about Mongolia dated 30 September 1966.

'Historical copy or register of title' - copies of the property register for 60 Queen's Garden supplied by the Land Registry, covering the period 1992 -2015.

A green pattern cover notebook handwritten possibly in Sanskrit, the title on the first page reads 'Langlol and Notes on same'. It has annotations in English and the content is possibly related to a dialect from Manipur, India.

"Language and Logic in ancient China, by Chad Hansen, University of Michigan Press, 1983". Correspondence concerning Graham's review and drafts of the review.

Notes on research into Chinese language. Some of these are unordered.

"Languages of the Indo-Chinese Peninsula and the Indian Archipelago" by R.N. Cust. Printed pamphlet produced by the Philological Society. Hodgson has written his own title on the front cover alongside Cust's inscription to him. Soft cover pamphlet, 38 pages, dated 1877.

These are 3 large sketches presumably by Lady Jones. Only one has an accompanying description which dates it to 17th March [1790]. This is a pencil sketch of a climbing plant in the Company's Botanical Gardens near Calcutta (Kolkata). The second sketch is in pencil with a single flower in colour but with no annotation. The third sketch is also in pencil with leaves and flower in colour.

Each of these three drawings has been given a reference number used in the Head catalogue, including 025.037, 025.067 and one from the sub-collection of 025.054-025.068 (likely 025.066 as the remaining numbers have all been assigned).

"L'Art de Dvaravati" by Jean Boisselier. Photocopy of article from Silpakorn 11(Vol.6) (March 1968), pp. 34-56.

These letters were all contained with the Manning archive on purchase from Maggs Publishers. They concern a variety of matters including the reputation of Thomas Manning and his relationship with Charles Lamb