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"Chinese Serial", a newspaper in Chinese printed at the English missionary school Ying Wa College in Hong Kong, with a table of contents in English showing recent major events around the world, and a map of the two hemispheres. The volume was originally stab-bound with twisted paper ties, now disbound. The front page displays a Riggs Library stamp and the written name "Capt. J. Pope / U.S.S. Vandalia".

Scope and Contents Two Protestant missionary tracts published in South East Asia: one published in 1838 in Bangkok in the Thai language and script, "On the Final Judgement" by Dr. Dan Bradley; the other published in 1837 in Singapore in the Malay language using Arabic script, also by American missionaries, recounting the story of the Arab Christian converts Abdullah and Sabat. Both tracts bear an inscription describing the respective text and its donation to Georgetown University by Lorenzo Lewis, esq. of...

Scope and Contents Siamese folding-book manuscript with 15 "leaves" or panels having text written on both sides. An accompanying letter (now in the curatorial file) from Prince Nandiyavat Svastivatana (“Svasti”), from 15 June 1931, when he was a student of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, describing the book and its text as "an incomplete work in verse", with the first side of the manuscript relating the "story of of the young Prince named Chandawongs, a grandson... of the King of...

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Contains all publications except Far Seas.

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Traditional stab bound book filled with an unidentified Japanese or Chinese text written in cursive, or grass script. A library index card found in the curatorial file may suggest that this manuscript is a book of poems by the Japanese author Nakayama Tadanao (1895-1957) titled "Chikyu wo tomurau", or "Earth Elegy", published in 1938, but it has not yet been identified.