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A letter expressing his sympathy to Patricia after reading the obituary in the Times.

Letter from Charles Lloyd to Thomas Manning to send sonnets that Lloyd and Wordsworth had written to Priscilla. He asks for Manning's opinion on them. Handwritten, 1 piece, 4 sides, dated 21 July 1800.

Letter from Charles Lloyd to Thomas Manning to send him some sonnets that he had written about Manning, and to inform that he is waiting on his son's arrival. Handwritten, 1 piece, 4 sides, dated 3 January 1820.

Letter from Charles Lloyd to Thomas Manning in which he refutes Manning's objections to sonnets, pointing out the immortality of Petrarch's and including one of his own as an example. Handwritten, one piece, 4 sides, dated 3 July 1800.

Letter from Charles Lloyd to William Manning. Lloyd writes that he has transcribed the parts of Thomas' letter that were not personal to him in case William Manning has not heard from him. Transcription not with this letter. In Manning's script on the reverse is "C. Lloyd's extracts from a letter of mine". Handwritten, 1 piece, 1 side. Dated 23 [September] 1808.

Letter from Charles to David [Bivar], to suggest the name of Carmen Blacker as a potential recipient of the Burton Memorial Medal.

Letter from China Society of America, New York, to Silcock to thank him for the copy of "The Chinese Gods of Wealth."

Letter to Thomas Manning from [Lance Ammery] (a different hand suggests this is the Chinese baker at Penang). It seems that Manning has lost money which the writer hopes to regain for him if he can. He asks Manning to give attention to "Atoong & my Son". He is still in the same "predicament" but hopes to see Manning if he makes it to China. Dated 23 June 1807, from Penang. Handwritten 1 piece, 2 sides

Letter from Chow Cheng-chen to Angus Graham to state he had read with interest Graham's Poems of the Late T'ang and to send his own book. Letter originally located in the copy of the book, Li He Lun, Hong Kong, 1971.

Letter from Christian Lassen to Brian Houghton Hodgson in which he thanks Hodgson for sending his papers on Vayu and Kiranti tribes of the Himalayas and for lending the selections from Hodgson's reports printed by order of the Government of Bengal. They had been directed back to Hodgson at his address in Darjeeling, but by that time Hodgson had already left Darjeeling and the papers were returned again to Lassen's address in Bonn. Lassen expresses his appreciation of Hodgson's contribution to the promotion of knowledge of Buddhism, geography, zoology and ethnology of Tibet and the Central and Eastern Himalaya and also for his more recent work on the languages of sub-Himalayan tribes. Includes Hodgson's title note with receipt and reply dates. With original envelope with postal stamps. Handwritten, 3 sides, dated 20 November 1860.