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Letter from Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania, to Angus Graham to ask Graham to confirm receipt of his letter with the agreement and to ask him to write a short biography.

Letter from Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania, to Angus Graham to inform that he hasn't received the agreement or biography but has written to University of Hawaii Press to see if they have received them.

Letter from Victor Mair, Harvard University, to Angus Graham to express his surprise at receiving Graham's essay far ahead of the deadline and his pleasure at its content.

Letter from Victor Mair, Harvard University, to Angus Graham to inform him that Chad Hansen has provided a marvellous paper and to inform Graham of his own change of address.

Letter from Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania, to contributors to inform that the book has been accepted for publication by the University of Hawaii Press.

Letter from Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania, to contributors to inform that he has received the contract from the University Press of Hawaii and therefore to lay out the conditions of publication.

Letter from Victor Mair, Harvard University, to Correspondent to inform of his change of address. There is an added note from Mair to inform Graham that he has received his letters.

Letter from Vikram Seth to Angus Graham to send Graham a copy of Seth's translations from Wng Wei, Li Bai and DU Fu and to ask him to look at them. He writes concerning his pleasure in reading Graham's Poems of the Late Tang and of his own connection with China. The translations are with the letter.

Letter from Vincent Arthur Smith in Gorakhpur to William Claxton Peppé in Birdpore in which Smith finds Peppé's discoveries 'very interesting'. He hopes he will write a detailed account of his excavations with plans and photographs and asks him to survey the whole site. He warns Peppé that he must report his find officially. He believes the stupa to be 'of early date – anterior to the Christian era'. Continuing on 20 January, he adds that he is busy in court until 26 January but could come out to visit him by train on 27 January. Handwritten 8 sides, dated 19-20 January 1898.

Letter from Vincent Smith in Gorakhpur to William Claxton Peppé in Birdpore, in which Smith declares the find to be of 'even greater interest than we thought' and that the characters 'may be as early as B. C. 300'. Dates Buddha 'floruit' BC 500, Asoka BC 270. Smith continues in a postscript that the best book on Buddhism is a small book by Rhys Davids, and another is Hardy's Manual of Buddhism. Handwritten, 4 sides, dated 23 January 1898.