Company of that day, who voluntarily offered his assistance.
In a letter from Robert Bogle to Dalrymple, dated at Daldowie, the 28th of January, 1792, an arrangement for handing over the manuscripts was made; and it seems that a volume, containing a copy of the reports of George Bogle's conversations with the Deb Rajah and the Teshu Lama, was actually entrusted to Dalyrmple. But no publication ever took place, and at the sale of Dalrymple's library this Bogle manuscript was bought by Lord Valentia. At the Arley Castle sale it was purchased by Messrs. Boone, of whom the Trustees of the British Museum bought it in 1833. It is now in the British Museum. It would appear from the notice in the Glasgow paper,[1] that another copy was presented to the Royal Society. The only document relating to Bogle's mission, which has been preserved among the records at Calcutta and in the India Office, is the report on the trade of Tibet.[2]
Searches have frequently been made for the complete journal of George Bogle, and for other papers relating to his mission to Tibet, both in India and in this country, but without success. At length, thanks to the liberal kindness of Miss Martha Brown of Lanfine, the representative of the family, and to the care of Mr. Gairdner of Kilmarnock, who judiciously sorted and arranged the great accumulation of papers, the complete narrative of George Bogle's important mission to Tibet is now presented to the world.
