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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 J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank him for the material from the Warburg Institute. Derrett comments on what he has learnt from the Fergusson and Burgess book concerning sculptures found in the village of Jamālgarhi including three distinctly Christian scenes. The sculptures had been on display in London in 1880 but have since disappeared. He also comments upon his theory of Christ being recognised as a Bodhisattva, and in a postscript mentions how Turner, Director of SOAS, had doubts about Derrett's 'powers'.

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.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Kathy Lazenbatt, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank her for sending the article but to say his research had taken a knock from a letter by the British Museum suggesting his coin was a forgery. He writes of a different viewpoint regarding the material with which he has settled.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank him for sending the copy of the Fergusson and Burgess book and to ask for the address of the Warburg Institute where Pollock had found the Seydel reference.

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.

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 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 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 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.