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Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to state that he needed a new area of research after his publication, Bible and the Buddhists reached its penultimate stage. He is intending to write an article entitled, 'Christ and Bodhisattvas: absolvers of dead sinners'. He asks whether the Society has two apposite publications, Kāranda-vyūha edited by S. Samasvami, and the Sanskrit text of the Saddharma-pundarīka.

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 Michael Pollock, Royal Asiatic Society Librarian, to J. Duncan M. Derrett to send the missing page as requested and to inform about the publications Derrett had requested in his previous letter of which the Society only has the T. Rogers book he required. He is also sending articles from the Pali Text Society.

Postcard from J.D.M. Derrett to Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank Pollock for his prompt and full response. The material he sent was very helpful,

Letter from Simon Fourmy, Royal Asiatic Society, to J.D.M. Derrett to send, in the absence of Michael Pollock, the copy of chapter 20 of the Saddharmapundarika, Derrett had requested.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to request a copy of a chapter from the Saddharmapunarika edited by H. Kem and Bunyu Nanjio for his research on Judaeo-Christian material within the Lotus Sutra.

Letter from P.R. Sittampalam, Honorary Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka Branch, to the Royal Asiatic Society to inform that their letter concerning the Barwis-Holliday Award had been circulated among members of the Sri Lanka Branch.

Correspondence between E.V. Gibson and C.G. Urageda:

• Letter from C.G. Urageda to the Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society to submit his paper, 'Impact of Immigrant South Indian labour on the Health Structure of Sri Lanka', dated 20 October 1980.
• Letter from E.V. Gibson to C.G. Urageda to acknowledge receipt of his paper, dated 27 October 1980.

Letter from Edward Barwis Holliday to A.D.H. Bivar to fully discuss all the submissions.

Between 1980 and 1988 some essays were submitted but either did not fall within the scope of the prize of were not of a suitable standard. This subseries contains the material from the intervening years and the award of the prize to Professor W.S. Atwell in 1988.