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Volume 1 of a series of diaries written by Joseph Rock in China.
Volume 1 covers Yunnanfu [Kunming] to Cheng-tu between December 1924 and March 1925.

Diary of Joseph F.C. Rock Volume 13 [14 on spine]; Minya Konka to K’u-lu and Yung-ning, 1929 entitled 'Diary of Joseph F. Rock, from June 5th 1929 to August 31st 1929, Volume XIII [scored out] XIV'.
Some of the pages contain hand drawn maps.

Letter from George Forrest, The Consulate, Teng-yueh [Tengchong], S.W. China, to Professor Isaac Bayley Balfour M.D. 'Regius Keeper' Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, dated 06 February 1906.
Forrest writes to say he is sending off 360 sheets of specimens and asks Balfour to name one of the new specimens after the late Mr Litton. The new consul, Mr Ottewill, has arrived from Ichang. Forrest will leave in a week for Tali en route for the north and will attempt to reach that part of the Mekong-Salwin divide west of Yeh-chi and then work north to the lat[itude] of Tsekou, to cover the old ground of his flight.
Letter has been fire damaged with some loss of text.