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

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Drafts of poems "Old friend winter", Here comes mild May", and "I'm on tenters and hooks for the Packet of Books" in which he addresses Mr Payne to send his books to Dartford promptly. Also copies of these poems in mirror writing. Handwritten 4 pieces, 5 sides

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

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Dartford, Kent (England)

Archive Record|Table of contents

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