Dossier RAS UPE/31/1/2 - Letter from Simon Digby to Arthur Irvine

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GB 891 RAS UPE-RAS UPE/31-RAS UPE/31/1-RAS UPE/31/1/2

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Letter from Simon Digby to Arthur Irvine

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  • 1st Nov 1973 (Création/Production)

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Simon Everard Digby
(1932-2010)

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Simon Everard Digby was born in India in 1932 and was educated at Stowe School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He travelled in India and Pakistan before returning to England to complete a PhD at the School of Oriental and Africa Studies. He returned to India in 1961-1962 and continued to make trips to India throughout his life. He was Honorary Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1968-1984. During this time he worked to identify some of these documents. In 1972 he was appointed to a post in the Department of Eastern Art of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. He also taught and examined post-graduate students at SOAS. He died in Delhi in 2010 from pancreatic cancer.

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Letter from Simon Digby to Arthur Irvine to enclose the essay, "The Spread of Buddhism in central Asia" which both Michael Loewe and himself have read. He considers this is superior to the other essays which he has forwarded to Michael Loewe. Handwritten with printed letterhead, 2 sides, dated 1 November 1973.

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