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GB 891 TM-TM/9-TM/9/4 · File · [1807-1817]
Part of Papers of Thomas Manning, Chinese Scholar, First English visitor to Lhasa, Tibet

Chinese notebook, small, green cloth covered. Contains notes of a linguistic nature in Latin, English and French. Inserted are several loose sheets of paper including a receipt in Chinese dated 1816; Latin and English notes; 2 sheets of mathematical problems, one of which is on the reverse of a letter to Thomas Manning from [Lowe Ammo] concerning payment, dated P.N. Island (Penang) 23 February 1813.

GB 891 TM-TM/9-TM/9/5 · File · [1807-1817]
Part of Papers of Thomas Manning, Chinese Scholar, First English visitor to Lhasa, Tibet

Chinese notebook, small, green cloth covered. Contains notes on Chinese grammar and language with comparisons with English language; comments on the use of Greek in Homer's Iliad. Back cover has pencil sketch of [Tibetan/Chinese house]. Loose sheets include 2 drafts of a love poem dated 15 October 1812; some Latin sentences; title "Notes on Lassa" with mathematical calculations on reverse.

GB 891 TM-TM/9-TM/9/3 · File · [1807-1817]
Part of Papers of Thomas Manning, Chinese Scholar, First English visitor to Lhasa, Tibet

Chinese notebook, small, green cloth covered, including original pencil. Contains Chinese vocabularies; 2 sketches of Dalai Lama; shopping lists and memos; medical notes; list of English words beginning 'ab'; diary notes on leaving Lhasa; notes on literature - French, Greek, etc.; mathematical problems. Inserted are loose sheets of paper - more diary notes; numerical list.

Chinese Logic
GB 891 ACG-ACG/13-ACG/13/8 · File · 1967
Part of Papers of Angus C. Graham

Chinese Logic by A.C. Graham reproduced from The Encyclopedia of Philosophy edited by Paul Edwards, Macmillan and Free Press, 1967. Photocopy with typed frontispiece.

Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991
Chinese Gordon
GB 891 RB-RB/2-RB/2/24 · File · 1885
Part of Papers of Richard Francis Burton

[Charles George] “Chinese” Gordon [of Khartoum]. Journals of Major-General C. G. Gordon, C.B., at Khartoum. Review by R F. Burton, The Academy, Vol. XXVIIA. July 11, 1885, pp. 19-20. [The author of the introduction and notes to the work under review is given in the typescript as A Egmont Halse. It should be Alfred Egmont Hake.]Typed copy of Review from "The Academy"

GB 891 SC1 · Fonds · [1798 - 1816]

There are three Chinese documents concerning trade and interaction with the English. With the documents are English abstracts and modern Chinese translations created in 2018.

Staunton Sir George Thomas 1781-1859 Chinese linguist