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Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 3 October 2001, to enclose a copy of Phelps' paper on the 'Lumbini/Kapilavastu position'. He asks for Willis' comments. The paper, 'Lumbini and Kapilavastu: Are They Both in India?' is with the letter.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 3 November 1999, to ask whether any copies of the Cunningham reliquary from Stupa No. 7 at Satdhara were despatched from the British Museum to India before 1899. With the letter is a photocopy of the reliquary.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 3 February 2000, to inform of his further research concerning Fuhrer and Khadga Shamsher. With the letters are copies of:

• An extract from a report for the Department of Reserve and Agriculture (Archaeology and Epigraphy), file No 24 of 1898;
• An extract from V.A. Smith's preface to P.C. Mukkherji's report, 1899;
• Some extracts from Fuhrer's monograph;
• A letter from K.P. Poonacha, Archaeological Survey of India, 1 October 1999.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 28 November 2002, to send copies of extracts from 'Kabir and the Bhagti Movement' by Maher Singh and a picture of the 'Real Piprahwa Casket'. These are with the letter as is a further copy of p.303 from Buchanan's 'History and Antiquities of Ancient India'.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 27 June 2001, concerning a recent phone call with Dr Coringham about his recent excavations at Tilaurakat. Phelps writes of his assessment of the conversation and an article that he has subsequently read. With the letter are copies of extracts from:

• Beal's 'Yuan Chweng';
• Fuhrer's 'Birthplace of Buddha Sokyamuni';
• Watters, 1898 JRAS article;
• B.C. Law's 'India as described in Early Texts of Buddhism and Jainism';
• An extract from 'Dictionary of Proper names' by G.P. Malalasekera;
• Smith's JRAS article on Sravasti in 1900 with supplementary note by Phelps.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 27 February 1996, to send a copy of the press release, forwarded by the Buddhist Association concerning discoveries at Lumbini of the 'birth chamber of the Buddha'. He believes his researches may now be coming to an end. The report is with the letter.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 26 April 2002, to send a copy of his acknowledgment from the Archaeological Survey of India. Also with the letter is the beginning of an article 'Ramajanma Bhumi: Ayodhya - New Archaeological Discoveries'.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 26 April 2001, to send articles by J. Ph. Vogel and Sir John Marshall. Copies of these articles from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society are with the letter as are two further extracts of articles relating to Sravasti.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 25 July 2000, to send copies taken from Fuhrer's Annual Progress report for 1893. The copies are with the letter.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 24 July 1996, to send some information found by a friend on the Internet. With the letter is an article 'Caught Live!' from the Japan Times Weekly for 18 November 1995.