TM/01/ : Family Correspondence
This Series contains 52 letters between Thomas Manning and his father, William Manning, Rector of Diss. These date from 1785, when Thomas was a child on holiday, until 1810, the year of William Manning’s death There are a further 5 letters between Thomas Manning and other family members
TM/1/1/01-Letter from William Manning, Diss, Norfolk, July 1785
Letter from William Manning (1733 – 1810) to Thomas (Master Manning) . Thomas had gone reluctantly to Yarmouth for the…
TM/1/1/02-Letter from William Manning, Diss, Norfolk, August 1785
Letter from William Manning to Thomas (Master Manning) at Yarmouth. William writes about Thomas’ sea-bathing – the benefits and frequency…
TM/1/1/03-Letter from Thomas Manning, Cambridge
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Cambridge in which he writes about his ill health which has prevented…
TM/1/1/04-Letter from Thomas Manning, Penrith, July 1799
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Penrith. He is staying with the family of his friend (Charles) Lloyd,…
TM/1/1/05-Letter from Thomas Manning, Cambridge, December [1799]
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Cambridge. He thanks his father for the offer of sending a turkey…
TM/1/1/06-Letter from Thomas Manning, Cambridge. December 1800
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Cambridge. He writes about the end of term and hoping to visit…
TM/1/1/07-Letter from Thomas Manning, Isle of Wight, May 1801
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Newport, Isle of Wight. He writes about surveying land in Hampshire with…
TM/1/1/08-Letter from Thomas Manning, Cambridge, 25 May 1801
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Cambridge. He writes about his tour after leaving the Isle of Wight,…
TM/1/1/09-Letter from Thomas Manning, London, 1801
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from [Greek] Street, Soho. He writes to tell his father that his passport…
TM/1/1/10-Letter from Thomas Manning, Dover and Boulogne, 4 January 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Dover and Boulogne. He writes about waiting for his crossing, visiting Dover…
TM/1/1/11-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 8th January 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He writes about his difficult journey through snow with horses falling…
TM/1/1/12-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 12 February 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He apologises for not writing sooner and blames it on lack…
TM/1/1/13-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 9 March 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He writes “Paris is a place where Luxury abounds and riots…
TM/1/1/14-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 11 May 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He assumes that his brothers, William and Edward, have informed his…
TM/1/1/15-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 8 June 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He wonders whether his last letter got to his father as…
TM/1/1/16-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 13 July 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He has been unwell for the last week but is leaving…
TM/1/1/17-Letter from Thomas Manning, Berne, Switzerland, July 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Brennen (Brunnen), Lake Lucerne, Switzerland. He writes to his father of his…
TM/1/1/18-Letter from Thomas Manning, Brunnen, Switzerland, August 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Brunnen, Switzerland. He writes about his tour round Switzerland – what pleased…
TM/1/1/19-Letter from Thomas Manning, Marseilles, France, 4 September 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Marseilles, France. He writes that he was pleased to find a letter…
TM/1/1/20-Letter from Thomas Manning, Toulouse, France, 17 September 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Toulouse, France. He responds to his father’s letter which he found in…
TM/1/1/21-Letter from Thomas Manning, Toulouse, France, 28 October 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Toulouse, France. He starts by saying he has received a letter from…
TM/1/1/22-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 5 November 1802
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He writes of his journey from Toulouse in the company of…
TM/1/1/23-letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 16 February 1803
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He apologises for not writing sooner; he has had a peculiar…
TM/1/1/24-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 8 March 1803
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He is preparing to leave France but must visit Madame de…
TM/1/1/25-Letter from Thomas Manning, Chateau de Serrant, France, 22 April 1803
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Serrant. He writes about his days at Serrant teaching English to Madame…
TM/1/1/26-Letter from Thomas Manning, Chateau de Serrant, France, 7 June 1803
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Serrant. He writes that he is prisoner in Serrant as the order…
TM/1/1/27-Letter from William Manning, Diss, Norfolk, [24 August 1803]
Letter from William Manning to Thomas Manning asking him to consider carefully his plan of going to China and the…
TM/1/1/28-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 14 September 1803
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He is being detained in Paris and is cross as the…
TM/1/1/29-Letter from Thomas Manning, Chateau de Serrant, France, 21 October 1803
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Serrant. He writes that he has been given permission to return to…
TM/1/1/30-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris,
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He has not received any letters for 6 months, nor written…
TM/1/1/31-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 28 February 1804
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He is sending the note by private hand; he still hasn’t…
TM/1/1/32-Letters from Thomas Manning, Paris, 19 April 1804
Letters from Thomas Manning to William Manning (father) and William Manning (brother) on same piece of paper. To his father…
TM/1/1/33-Letter from Thomas Manning, Paris, 27 September 1804
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Paris. He writes that another autumn has come and he is still…
TM/1/1/34-Letter from Thomas Manning, London, 21 April 1806
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from White horse fetter lane (London). He writes that he has been hunting…
TM/1/1/35-Letter from Thomas Manning, London, 7 May 1806
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Tavestock Hotel (London). He writes he is about to leave for Portsmouth…
TM/1/1/36-Letter from Thomas Manning, Portsmouth, England, 13 May 1806
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Portsmouth. He writes he is about to board but detained by the…
TM/1/1/37-Letter from Thomas Manning, on board the ‘Thames’, 29 May-9 August 1806
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from on board the Thames. On 29th May 1806 he writes that the…
TM/1/1/38-Letter from Thomas Manning, on board the ‘Thames’, 19 August -11 November 1806
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from on board the Thames. The letter begins on 19 August 1806 and…
TM/1/1/39-Letter from Thomas Manning, Canton, 14 January 1807
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Canton – “in my own rooms at the English factory given me…
TM/1/1/40-Letter from Thomas Manning, Canton, 24 February 1807
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Canton. “All our attention has been absorbed for these last two months…
TM/1/1/41-Letter from Thomas Manning, Canton, 7 May 1807
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Canton. He writes that the recall of the fleet that was despatched…
TM/1/1/42-Letter from Thomas Manning, Macao, 20 June -1 July 1807
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Macao. He writes on 20 June, 1807 that he had travelled to…
TM/1/1/43-Letter from Thomas Manning, Canton, 6 January 1808
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Canton. He has finally received a letter from his father along with…
TM/1/1/44-Letter from Thomas Manning, Canton, 12 February 1808
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Canton. Manning writes about the disappointment in not receiving letters but that…
TM/1/1/45-Letter from Thomas Manning, Canton, 24 February 1808
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Canton. He writes that he lives in a most advantageous insulated condition…
TM/1/1/46-Letter from Thomas Manning, Macao, [18 August 1808]
2 copies of a letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Macao. He writes that his expedition to Cochinchina…
TM/1/1/47-Letter from Charles Lloyd, England, 23 September 1808
Letter from Charles Lloyd to William Manning. Lloyd writes that he has transcribed the parts of Thomas’ letter that were…
TM/1/1/48-Letter from Thomas Manning, Macao, December 1808
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Macao. He writes that troops have been landed at Macao to protect…
TM/1/1/49-Letter from Thomas Manning, Canton, 1 March 1809
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Canton. He writes about the letters that he received. He has earned…
TM/1/1/50-Letter from Thomas Manning, on board the ‘Thames’ [1810]
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from on board the Pellen headed from Canton to Bengal. He promises to…
TM/1/1/51-Letter from Thomas Manning, Calcutta, 28 April 1810
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Calcutta. He writes of his frustrated attempt to get to Pekin whilst…
TM/1/1/52-Letter from Thomas Manning, Rajpur, India, 20 December 1810
Letter from Thomas Manning to William Manning from Rajpur. He is hoping to enter Tibet as a trader and has…
TM/1/2/1-Letter from Susanna Manning, 15 April 1806
Letter from Susan Manning to Thomas Manning. She will send the parcel he request to White Horse Fetter lane. She…
TM/1/2/2-Letter from Thomas Manning, Canton, 23 February 1808
Letter from Thomas Manning to his brother, William Manning. He writes to introduce Mr Berry who will bring the letter…
TM/1/2/3-Letter from Thomas Manning, Canton, 29 September 1809
Letter from Thomas Manning to his sister, [Susan] from Canton. He writes of receiving letters from other family members and…
TM/1/2/4-Letter from Thomas Manning, Hertfordshire, England, 13 October 1818
Letter from Thomas Manning to his brother, Edward Manning from Redbourn, [Hertfordshire]. He writes asking Edward to imagine the house…
TM/1/2/5-Labels concerned with family correspondence
Note “Family Letters of T.M. from Switzerland”. On reverse is address “Thomas Manning Esq., at Mr Charles Lloyd, Penrith” and…