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Letter from Michael Pollock, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, to J. Duncan M. Derrett to thank for the return of the Fergusson and Burgess book and to send the photocopy of the required material from the Warburg Institute.

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 Michael Pollock, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, to J. Duncan M. Derrett to reply that he has looked at the articles by Burgess in the Journal of Indian Art and Industry but can find no reference to Christian scenes. They do reference the Graeco-Roman style of some of the sculptures. He encloses a photocopy of some of the first article. He replies also that the Society does not have a copy of Ackermann's book on the Narrative stone reliefs in the V&A Museum, London.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank for the copy of M.L. Carter's article on coins and to ask for the research paper by Amiteshwar Jha on Coins of Menander which he hopes will further the research done by A.D.H. Bivar on the topic. He also discusses other articles and about sending an article for potential publication in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.

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 thank him for sending the 'D'Alviella so promptly' and the xeroxes which are very suitable for his research. He is thinking of sending an article to the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank him for procuring 'E.A. Gordon' which has indirectly helped with his research. He is returning the book.

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.

A set of five notebooks entitled:

• “Assyrian Inscriptions R. C. Thompson, 1894”
• “Algeria 1901”
• “Kodak Sinaiticus or Grads and Ghouls, 1902”
• “Tripoli 1903” and “A year in Nineveh, 1904–1905”
• Newspaper cuttings and assortments of notes and letters

Two printed pamphlets entitled:

• “A list of words and phrases in the Basrah Dialect of Arabic”
• “On traces of an indefinite article in Assyrian”

Administrative documents detailing journal exchanges:

• Lists of Exchanges, gifts and purchases of journals and periodicals dating to the early 1930s. Typed and handwritten, 56 pieces.
• 'Royal Asiatic Society Journals etc Exchanged or Bought, & Journals & other series Presented' - a large notebook containing entries dating from 1951 - 1967. This notebook is without its boards or spine and is in fragile condition.
• 'Exchanges Accepted' and 'Exchanges Rejected' listing journals accepted and rejected for exchange between 1964 -1977. Typed, 4 pieces.
• Administrative lists detailing exchanges etc, handwritten and typed for periods, 1980-1982, 1983-1986 (2 sets of lists), 1987-1990 (2 sets of lists), 265 pieces.
• 'Back issues of serials requested' - lists of request for missing issues. Typed, 8 pieces, undated [1996].
• 'Periodical Titles currently Received and on Display in the Reading Room of the Library' - typed list of periodicals, 3 pieces, undated [1990s].
• 'Exchange Journals from which no Periodical or Correspondence has been received for at least Five Years' - typed list, 3 pieces, dated 8 May 2000.
• 'Serials - Numerical Order, 1997/part rev. July 2001' - typed list, 14 pieces.
• 'List of Libraries and Institutions subscribing to the Society's Journal' - photocopied list with handwritten annotation 'Entries marked - also appear on the C.U.P (Cambridge University Press) List! MJP (Michael Pollock, Librarian) 5.12.2001', 10 pieces.
• 'Printout from CUP data base of "free" copies of J.R.A.S. December 2001' - typed list, 21 pieces.
• 'Report on Periodical of Serial Exchanges in the Library of the R.A.S.' - report written by Michael Pollock concerning the history of periodical exchange and current situation. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 3 January 2002.