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.

Letter from Thomas Manning to George Tuthill from (Runjpore), Bengal. Manning has his passport from the Rajah of Bootan (Bhutan) to travel through his country to Lhasa to see the Grand Lama. He will set off the following day. He sends his love to Tuthill' s wife, Maria, and daughter and wishes he was with his friends in England. He likes Tuthill' s plans about Medicine and about publishing a Greek Dictionary about which Manning writes that he knows a great deal about particles and prepositions, compounds and tenses which has never been published. Manning writes though he knows much, he is not keen on Fame. He asks Tuthill for news on Bonaparte's campaign. He adds a postscript about a paper he should have sent to Charles Lamb and in some boxes makes notes about Wordsworth, Coleridge and Lamb. Handwritten, 1 piece, 3 sides. Dated (in letter) 27 August 1811

Manuscript of "Narrative of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa". Handwritten manuscript prepared by [Manning's sister] on paper watermarked 1834. This account contains additional material to the account that was published posthumously by C. R. Markham in 1876 as "Narratives of the Mission of George Bogle to Tibet and of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa". The manuscript is closely written on 99pp and draws from material to be found in the notebooks, TM/9/2 & TM/9/3.

Notebook containing notes on Tibetan vocabulary. Also some Latin notes and notes on events and people in China; grammar notes; English lists of words. In the back of the book is a partial journal of his time in Tibet - mostly the beginning of the journey and includes an entry about meeting the Dalai Lama "This day I saluted the Grand Lama!! Beautiful Youth. Face poetically affecting. Could have wept. Very happy to have seen him & his blessed smile. hope often to see him again". Large, half-calf notebook, warped, handwritten in pencil and ink.
Inserted into the notebook:

• Note to and from Thomas Beale concerning whether Beale was expecting the Hoopoo, handwritten, undated
• Vocabulary list 4 sheets of Chinese writing including two copies of a contract between Manning and Gao Hengxin for 1000 yuan, dated 20 January 1815
• "Recipe for [Hang yummtoy] or Almond Syrup", Letter from Sian Seng.