1936 - 1937 Mission Diary

The official diary of the Gould mission to Lhasa sent by the British government. Read more about the mission diary.

December 11th Friday.

see photographs below

Changlo-chhen, a young official, balled on Gould.

We all lunched with the Regent today and afterwards gave a film show in a large room of his own monastery. He was quite delighted and insisted on a three hours performance, only letting us go then on condition that we promised to arrange another show later on.

Author: Frederick Spencer Chapman [see handwritten annotations in Diary by Hugh Richardson in MS. Or. Richardson 2, Bodleian Libary, Department of Oriental Collections, University of Oxford]

Page Reference: Pt X p.3

Changlochen?

1998.131.447

Changlochen?

toggle image sizeEnlarge

previous (10th December) entry next (12th December) entry