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Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to state that he needed a new area of research after his publication, Bible and the Buddhists reached its penultimate stage. He is intending to write an article entitled, 'Christ and Bodhisattvas: absolvers of dead sinners'. He asks whether the Society has two apposite publications, Kāranda-vyūha edited by S. Samasvami, and the Sanskrit text of the Saddharma-pundarīka.

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 Kathy Lazenbatt, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to ask if she can locate an article written in the Journal of the Society concerning a bronze coin of an Indo-Greek king for he has acquired a contemporaneous silver coin and wishes to compare the two.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to ask for some xeroxes of material from the Pali text Society and to ask him to discover if the Society has received a copy of his Bible and Buddhists for review, suggesting Richard Gombrich might be a good reviewer.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform that one page of the copied article is missing and could Pollock please send it. He has recently found a part-copy of J.G. Frazer's Golden Bough which could influence the article he had just despatched to the Journal of the Society. Derrett writes of other research he is undertaking before asking whether the Society's Library contained certain publications by Thiessen, Rogers and d'Alveilla. He also asks for a copy of C.A.F. Rhys Davids' translation of the Kisā Gotamī.

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.