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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 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 Michael Pollock, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to ask Pollock to send a copy of part of the original of the Saddharmapundarika rather than Kern's translation.

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 Kathy Lazenbatt, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to J.D.M. Derrett to send a copy of the chapter that he has requested and an invoice for the copying. She also sends a copy of a portrait by the artist, Dora Gordine, believed to be undertaken in the 1940s and asks whether Derrett may be able to help in identification of the sitter.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Kathy Lazenbatt, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank for her letter and the material and to inform her of a sceptical letter from a leading German Buddhologist he received in the same post. He also writes that he cannot identify the man in the portrait which Lazenbatt had sent.

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.

Letter from J.D.M. Derrett to Kathy Lazenbatt, Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to thank her for sending the article but to say his research had taken a knock from a letter by the British Museum suggesting his coin was a forgery. He writes of a different viewpoint regarding the material with which he has settled.

The Papers consist of copies of letter sent by Stoddart, a newspaper cutting about his death, and the original containing envelope. These are:

• Copy of a letter from Stoddart to Crawford to inform that he had been appointed Commander of the Escort, a position gained for him by Mr Ellis, which is not onerous and has increased his yearly salary. He also writes that he will stay in Persia unless a more attractive opportunity opens for him. He asks for news from England. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 17 April 1837.
• Copy of a letter from Stoddart to Crauford (different spelling to letter above) from 'Bokhauran' (Bukhara) in which he writes that his appointment to Bokhauran should have made him his own master and therefore at liberty to write more freely. However four days after his arrival he was imprisoned and from 21 December 1838 until February 1841 was unable to write at all. Now however, he is at liberty. He gives news of Heraut (Herat) and Kabool (Kabul) and the military manoeuvres of the Persian and English armies. He writes that he is now well-treated and bears no ill-will. He asks for news to be sent via the Foreign Office. Typed, 3 pieces, dated 1 May 1841.
• 'The Murder of Lieut. Col. Stoddart and Capt. Conolly, in Bokhara' - a newspaper cutting from an unknown newspaper giving the details of the execution of Stoddart and Conolly on 17 June 1842.
• The original containing envelope with the title, 'Murder of Lt. Col. Stoddart by the Amir of Bokhara on 17.6.1842 - & of Captain Conolly'.