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Postcard from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank him for the pages sent.

Postcard from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank Pollock for his prompt and full response. The material he sent was very helpful,

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

Letter from Simon Fourmy, Royal Asiatic Society, to J.D.M. Derrett to send, in the absence of Michael Pollock, the copy of chapter 20 of the Saddharmapundarika, Derrett had requested.

Letter from Michael Pollock, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, to J. Duncan M. Derrett to send the missing page as requested and to inform about the publications Derrett had requested in his previous letter of which the Society only has the T. Rogers book he required. He is also sending articles from the Pali Text Society.

Letter from Michael Pollock, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, to J. Duncan M. Derrett to thank for the return of the Fergusson and Burgess book and to send the photocopy of the required material from the Warburg Institute.

Letter from Michael Pollock, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, to J. Duncan M. Derrett to enclose the copies of the articles on the coins of Menander and to apologise for the quality of the images, explaining those in the original article were of poor quality. He also thanks for the copy of The Bible and the Buddhists for the collections of the Society.

Letter from Michael Pollock, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, to J. Duncan M. Derrett to send the requested photocopies from Indian Art and Industry, Indian Antiquary and the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. He writes he is also sending by registered post, Albert Grünwedel's Buddhist Art in India, translated by Agnes C. Gibson.

Letter from Michael Pollock, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, to J. Duncan M. Derrett to reply that he has looked at the articles by Burgess in the Journal of Indian Art and Industry but can find no reference to Christian scenes. They do reference the Graeco-Roman style of some of the sculptures. He encloses a photocopy of some of the first article. He replies also that the Society does not have a copy of Ackermann's book on the Narrative stone reliefs in the V&A Museum, London.

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.