Autobiographical notes of James Legge, Professor of Chinese at Oxford University, comprising: an incomplete manuscript, which covers the early part of Legge's life up to 1840, entitled 'notes on my life', 1896 a transcript copy of 'Reminiscences' of James Legge, describing various incidents while in China between 1839 and 1863, early 20th century a typescript copy of notes by…

Copy of journal kept by Robert James Bleakley as a Colonial Office cadet in Singapore, 1937-1940, including an account of a visit to China. Typescript.

Diaries, with transcripts, of C.H. Hawes, relating to tours of: France, Belgium and Switzerland, 1897-8 The Far East: India, Burma, Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Siberia and Sakhalin, 1900-1 Greece, Turkey and Crete, 1904-5 Crete, 1909 The collection also contains an account book and…

Two of Allen's journals. The first is a typescript journal of travels around the world, 1912-13, including visits to India, China and Japan, with photographs; the second is a fishing journal, with photographs, 1906-13.

Costin's papers, concerning his visit to the Far East, consist of four notebooks containing a journal of his trip, three albums of photographs, and a carbon typescript report by Costin on his travels.