Notebook on Tibetan Vocabulary and Partial Diary of Journey to Lhasa

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  • Reference
      GB 891 TM/9/2
  • Dates of Creation
      [1810-1817]
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
      English Tibetan Chinese Latin
  • Physical Description
      1 notebook and 8 loose sheets

Scope and Content

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.

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