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DEATH OF MR. MANNING. Bhutan, Tibet, and Tatary. In 1838 he had a paralytic stroke, and in the same year he removed to Bath, where he died on the 2nd of May, 1840, aged sixty-eight. He was buried in the Abbey Church, at Bath, on the 8th of the same month.

Manning left behind him a collection of letters, and numerous writings in Chinese, but no manuscripts of his own sufficiently advanced for publication. His brother presented his Chinese library to the Royal Asiatic Society.

Through the kindness of the Rev. C. R. Manning, Mr. Thomas Manning's nephew, who is now Rector of Diss, the rough notes of the remarkable journey to Lhasa have been placed at my disposal, and are now printed for the first time.