File WCP/1/6 - Letter from Vincent Arthur Smith to William Claxton Peppé, 23 January 1898

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GB 891 WCP-WCP/1-WCP/1/6

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Letter from Vincent Arthur Smith to William Claxton Peppé, 23 January 1898

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  • 23rd Jan 1898 (Creation)

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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.

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