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Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 22 December 2002, in which he writes about his resolution to a problem concerning the Lumbini inscriptions. With the letter are copies of extracts from 'The birthplace of Gautama Buddha' from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1897.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 21 April 2003, to inform of his locating of the Rampurwa site. He also writes of the reception of his paper. With the letter are copies of:

• An annotated map of Pachimchamparan, Bihar;
• An extract from 'Kusinārā or Kuśinagara' by V.A. Smith, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, 1901;
• An extract from L.A. Waddell's 'The Buddha's Birth and Death', Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1896;
• An extract from J.H. Marshall's 'Archaeological Exploration of India, 1907-8', JRAS 1908;
• An extract from 'She Kia Fang Che'.

Letter from Terence Phelps to Michael Willis, 12 May 2003, to write about the soil at the Kusinagara site. With the letter are copies of extracts of articles concerning Kusinagara by Beal, 1886, Watters, 1902, Bloch 1906-7. Also items relating to Gandak taken from the Internet; and a map of North Bihar Archaeological Sites with supplementary note by Phelps.

Items separated from their original letters. These are:

• Copies of 2 letters sent between Terence Phelps to Dr. W. Zwalf, British Museum, concerning the site of Kapilavastu. These are dated 15 and 19 October 1993;
  *Photocopy of an extract from 'The Maha-Bodhi and the United Buddhist World', 1901-2, concerning a German Buddhist priest;
• An extract from 'The Piprahwa Stupa in the Birdpore Estate containing the relics of Buddha' from the Peppé Papers, Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge;
• A file from the Department of Revenue and Agriculture, 24 March 1899.

Four articles written by Phelps concerning his research. There is also a further article by Vicki Mackenzie from the Times Online.

'Piprahwa: A Three-Pipe Problem' by T.A. Phelps, a copy of Phelps' monograph, 1995.

'Lumbini and Kapilavastu: Are They both in India?' by T.A. Phelps, a copy of the monograph, undated (c.2001). With the article is a post-it note 'Michael - for you, Eliz.'

'The Piprahwa Deceptions: Setups and Showdown' by T.A. Phelps, 2008, an article adapted from a talk given at Harewood House in 2006 and posted online.

'The RAS Peppé Papers' by T.A. Phelps. With this article is a letter from Phelps to the Librarian, Royal Asiatic Society, to send the article and thank for allowing access to the Papers, dated 23 November 2009. Also with the article are copies of the references he has cited within his work.

'Buried with the Buddha' by Vicki Mackenzie from The Times Online, 21 March 2004, downloaded in 2008 concerning the investigation by Paul Seto of the Buddhist relics.