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GB 891 WA-WA/6-WA/6/44 · File · 6th Oct 1969
Part of Papers of William Edward David Allen

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen to ask if he could visit in November. Higgens encloses some letters to the Time Literary Supplement (these are with the letter) and writes that he was sorry to hear of the death of Holroyd-Smith. Dated: 6 October 1969.

Higgens Humphrey Translator
GB 891 WA-WA/6-WA/6/61 · File · 7th Aug 1973
Part of Papers of William Edward David Allen

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which he asks to be kept informed regarding Allen's health. He writes that he dined with the Blakistons and comments on the book that she had written. He sends a reminder of the money he is owed. Dated: 7 August 1973.

Higgens Humphrey Translator
GB 891 WA-WA/6-WA/6/51 · File · 9th Feb 1972
Part of Papers of William Edward David Allen

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which he thanks for his stay with Allen and writes of his recent diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. He is slowly progressing with his index and writes of recently reading Margaret Drabble's "A Summer Birdcage". Dated: 9 February 1972.

Higgens Humphrey Translator
GB 891 WA-WA/6-WA/6/29 · File · 9th Mar 1968
Part of Papers of William Edward David Allen

Letter from H. Higgens to W.E.D. Allen in which Higgens thanks Allen for a cheque and hopes he recovers from his illness. He says he has sent him John Lincoln's 'One Man's Mexico', John Carter's 'A.B.C. for Book Collectors' and Margaret Murray's 'Witchcraft in Western Europe'. He says he has loaned him Margaret Murray's 'God of the Witches', Vorobeva's 'Life in Two Worlds' and a paper about hypnotherapy practised by Sufis in Afghanistan. Dated: 9 March 1968.

Higgens Humphrey Translator
GB 891 TM-TM/4-TM/4/3 · File · 31 May 1805
Part of Papers of Thomas Manning, Chinese Scholar, First English visitor to Lhasa, Tibet

Letter from H Robinson, Kendal to Rev William Manning, Diss, Norfolk. He writes of his own illness and recovery and thanks William Manning for the pleasant time he and his niece spent with the Manning family. He has heard via Mr Lloyd that Thomas Manning is now recovered and that he may visit Westmorland that summer. However he has heard that Thomas has plans to travel again, this time to Russia and then on to China. He hopes that Thomas Manning's studies and publications will detain him at home this year. Robinson asks that if Manning publishes by subscription that his name be put to him when William Manning writes to his son. William Manning (son) he writes has finished college and is occupied in altering a house and laying out a garden. Madam Susan and [Miss Phoney] he understands have been in town this spring and hoped they enjoyed Sir Chappelow's house. he writes that when he visited Mrs Manning looked nearly as well as she did in 1796, only more lame. He writes of his own family's health. The rest of the letter is taken with his views of the political situation, both the conflict with France and Napoleon's power and the Roman Catholic Irish problem. He asks to be remembered to Mr B Wiseman. Dated 31 May 1805. Handwritten, 1 piece, 4 sides

GB 891 ACG-ACG/20-ACG/20/4-ACG/20/4/16 · File · 18th Mar [1984]
Part of Papers of Angus C. Graham

Letter from Hal [Roth] to Angus Graham with news of his work and family but also to impress on Graham that he should be at the Early China Seminar. (The letter dates from before Roth's move to Brown in 1985.

Roth Hal
GB 891 ACG-ACG/19-ACG/19/8-ACG/19/8/1 · File · 10th Jul 1990
Part of Papers of Angus C. Graham

Letter from Hal Roth to Angus Graham to state that he is organising a panel on Huang-Lao for the meeting of the Association of Asian Studies in New Orleans in the coming spring and asking Graham whether he would be willing to participate.

Roth Hal