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Letter from Dennis, University of Maryland, to Angus Graham to give his reactions on Graham's paper on Taoist spontaneity.

Letter from Dennis Wood to Col. Hoysted, RAS Secretary, to thank him for his letter and the award and to state that he will be able to receive the award on 10th December. Handwritten, 2 pieces, dated 18 November 1936.

Letter from John Allan, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum London, to Quaritch Wales concerning the rarity of the Sanskrit inscription. He asks if Wales chalked the inscription to make it reproduce more easily and whether that might account for the discrepancies. Typed letter, 1 side, dated 4 November 1938. With this letter is a copy of a reply by Quaritch Wales to say that he had used some white powder. However he will be bringing the inscription back at the end of January 1939. Typed letter, 1 side, dated 16 November 1938.

Letter from John Allan, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, to Quaritch Wales, giving further information regarding the identification and dating of the inscription on the fragments mentioned in his previous letter (QW/6/1/9). Typed letter, 2 sides, dated 16 May 1938.

Letter from John Allan, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum to Quaritch Wales concerning an unclear inscription which Allan cannot decipher. Typed letter, one side, dated 17 March 1939.

Letter from John Allan, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, to Quaritch Wales suggesting the marks on the stone which Wales brought are not mason's marks. Typed letter, 1 side, dated 18 November 1938.

Letter from John Allan, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, London, to Quaritch Wales, concerning the inscription on photographs that Quaritch Wales had sent which contain Buddhist text, dated roughly in the 6th century. Typed letter with handwritten mathematical annotations, 1 side, dated 25 February 1938.

Letter from John Allan, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, to Quaritch Wales,concerning the receipt of photographs of the inscription and the details of Chakravarti's identification. Typed letter, 1 side, dated 25 July 1939.

Letter from John Allan, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, to Quaritch Wales, containing the full translation of the Buddhist inscription, dated to 500-600 A.D., which might relate to the fragmentary inscription from Kedah published by Kern. Typed letter, 2 sides, dated 25 March 1938.

Letter from John Allan, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum, to Quaritch Wales concerning the inscription Wales had brought to him and that it contains the common Buddhist formula 'Ye dharmā hetuprabhava etc'. He has not identified the first line yet. Typed letter, 1 side, dated 4 March 1939.