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Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to the Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to ask if the Society has the book Cave Temples of India by J. Fergusson and J. Burgess and whether the Librarian would xerox a passage. He also ask for a xerox from Buddha-Legends by R. Seydel and an article from East and West, 1967.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to state that he had found passages of interest in Kern's translation of the Saddharmapundarika and to ask him to xerox the passages in the original manuscript.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to ask for a further part of the Saddharmapundarika translated by Kern.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to ask Pollock to send a copy of part of the original of the Saddharmapundarika rather than Kern's translation.

Letter from Kathy Lazenbatt, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to J.D.M. Derrett to send a copy of the chapter that he has requested and an invoice for the copying. She also sends a copy of a portrait by the artist, Dora Gordine, believed to be undertaken in the 1940s and asks whether Derrett may be able to help in identification of the sitter.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Kathy Lazenbatt, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank for her letter and the material and to inform her of a sceptical letter from a leading German Buddhologist he received in the same post. He also writes that he cannot identify the man in the portrait which Lazenbatt had sent.

Letters between J. Duncan M. Derrett and the Royal Asiatic Society concerning the material he required for his reseearch.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to the Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank him for the loan of Kings and Coins in India by R. Morton Smith. He comments on the author and his relationship with Harold Bailey. On the reverse is a misprinted copy from Kings and Coins in India.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank for his research and asks for him to send the rest of the first article. He also asks whether the Society has Grünwedel's Buddhistische Kunst in Indien, 1993 and a copy of Indian Antiquary, pp. 249ff. He writes that his second proofs for Bible and the Buddhists are due which will definitely be his last book published. In a postscript he asks for an article from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to make his comments on the Grünwedel book that Pollock had sent him and how the book fits with his continuing research on the sculptures at Jamālgarhi. He writes that his 42nd book will be his last but that his fascination with India and primitive Christianity remains.