"After the Stone was Laid"

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Neat version of a poem "After the Stone was Laid" concerning the blessing of a foundation stone. Mentions Queen Victoria therefore post 1837. Handwritten, 1 piece, 2 sides

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Manning , Thomas . ( 1772-1840 ) Chinese scholar, Traveller. First Englishman to Lhasa, Tibet

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Papers of Thomas Manning, Chinese Scholar, First English visitor to Lhasa, TibetTM

Correspondence between Thomas Manning and his familyTM/1

Correspondence between Thomas Manning and his early friendsTM/2

Correspondence during Manning's time in FranceTM/3

Other Correspondence pre-dating Manning's time in ChinaTM/4

Correspondence with Thomas Manning during his time in China and IndiaTM/5

Correspondence post Thomas Manning's time in ChinaTM/6

Correspondence with Stanislas Aignan JulienTM/7

Correspondence - Unknown EraTM/8

Notes and NotebooksTM/9

Hardcover folder with green /red marbling: Notes cover a variety of subjectsTM/9/1

Notebook on Tibetan Vocabulary and Partial Diary of Journey to LhasaTM/9/2

Chinese notebook including sketches of Dalai LamaTM/9/3

Chinese notebook with lingusitic notesTM/9/4

Chinese notebook with Chinese/English language and grammar comparisonsTM/9/5

Notes from Chinese PeriodTM/9/6

Almanacs with AnnotationsTM/9/7

Poetry and RiddlesTM/9/8

Exercise book containing riddlesTM/9/8/1

A set of ten riddlesTM/9/8/2

Drafts of a riddle, "Charade sur le mot mair, Par une Dame Russe"TM/9/8/3

"Riddle. In most rhetorical debate…"TM/9/8/4

"Mr Hudson's Conundrum"TM/9/8/5

Envelopes with cluesTM/9/8/6

Stories: A - U, V, Y - which seem to be play on words.TM/9/8/7

Extract of a Narrative affecting the Death of Mr Thomas Manning, NorfolkTM/9/8/8

16 Epigrams on the state of the "Bogs" (toilets) at Caius, Cambridge.TM/9/8/9

Verses about the state of the toilets at Caius College, Cambridge.TM/9/8/10

Poem beginning "Doomed to search if human nature…"TM/9/8/11

"Ballad. Written at Macao" A poem about Spain and Britain's unityTM/9/8/12

"Earth's great girls stablish mountain cloth, from place of rest they go"TM/9/8/13

"Go lovely Flower, that with thy sister flowers"TM/9/8/14

"Address to the […der] Pereira"TM/9/8/15

"After the Stone was Laid"TM/9/8/16

"Old friend winter", Here comes mild May", and "I'm on tenters and hooks for the Packet of Books"TM/9/8/17

Poem to Miss Hoare by "Ignote"TM/9/8/18

"Ulysses and the Syren By S. Daniel born in 1579"TM/9/8/19

"To Sir Robert Smyth", "What is Love?"TM/9/8/20

"On a Kiss"TM/9/8/21

"From the Irish of "Vurneen Declish Val Ma Chree"TM/9/8/22

Sentences exploring different usages of wordsTM/9/8/23

"Green was the growth of the Heidelberg Tunnel"TM/9/8/24

Scraps of English with a Literal Latin translationTM/9/8/25

"(When I) I was the opening morn"TM/9/8/26

"Some have praised emmetts and some have praised bees"TM/9/8/27

Nonsense rhymesTM/9/8/28

Verse draftsTM/9/8/29

"By lovely feature graceful form of mind"TM/9/8/30

"There swiftly glide proud vessel to thy port"TM/9/8/31

"Dreams of Fr haunt my Slumbers"TM/9/8/32

"The stream that's shivered by this evening breeze"TM/9/8/33

"When hard indifference meets my [Eye]"TM/9/8/34

"Curious billet"TM/9/8/35

Numbered draft verses/sayingsTM/9/8/36

"Let him learn"TM/9/8/37

"Quito sigmarila voluto studiare L'Italiano comme"TM/9/8/38

"Ranz des Vaches"TM/9/8/39

"Supposed album Verses at Harrogate"TM/9/8/40

"Underrated by my fellow…"TM/9/8/41

"Times themselves glide…"TM/9/8/42

"Extrait de la Menerve Francaise Mac (Macao) 1819"TM/9/8/43

Nonsense verses written in mirror writingTM/9/8/44

"Verses so I [conclude] by T.M."TM/9/8/45

Musical notation connecting notes and soundTM/9/8/46

Mathematical Notes and NotebooksTM/9/9

Notes regarding Roman CatholicismTM/9/10

"Narrative of the Journey of Thomas Manning to Lhasa"TM/10

Passports and Official DocumentsTM/11

Newspaper CuttingsTM/12

Address Labels and Calling CardsTM/14

Later Correspondence within Thomas Manning ArchiveTM/15

Notes regarding the Thomas Manning ArchiveTM/16

Catalogue of Manning's Books in RAS LibraryTM/17

Printed Material - "Description du Tibet"TM/18

Correspondence on loanTM/19