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Further correspondence concerned with Phelps' and others research into Buddhist relics.

Letter from Terence Phelps to J.R. Knox, 19 August 2003, to ask, in light of Michael Willis' sabbatical from the British Museum, whether he should still send updates concerning his research to the British Museum.

Copies of the letter from Paul Seto, Buddhist Society, to Michael Willis and Robert Knox, 20 August 2003, concerning the relics in the possession of Neil Peppé. With the letter are printed photographs of some of the relics.

Copies of letters from J.R. Knox to Paul Seto concerning the discovery of relics, and to Terence Phelps concerning accessing Michael Willis, both dated 10 September 2003.

Letter from Terence Phelps to J.R. Knox, 12 September 2003, to acknowledge his previous reply and ask his opinion on forwarding the material he is sending.

Copy of an email and corresponding letter from Paul Seto to J.R. Knox, concerning the possibility of an exhibition of the Piprahwa Relics at the British Museum and to inform of his forthcoming visit to see the relics, dated 31 October 2003.

Letter from Charles Allen to Michael Willis, 10 November 2003, concerning the visit to see the Piprahwa relics and to enclose his report. The report is with the letter.

Letter from [Paul Seto], Buddhist Society, to J.R. Knox, 21 November 2003, to enclose some photographs of the Peppé relics. Printouts of the photographs are with the letter.

Letter from Charles Allen to Michael Willis, 24 May 2004, to send his critique of Phelps' article 'Lumbini on Trial; The Untold Story'. With the letter is Allen's report and a copy of the article.

The papers consist of a letter from Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange to Captain Henry Harkness, Secretary, Royal Asiatic Society, to send an extract from a letter that he had received from his son, Thomas Lumisden Strange in Tellicherry, (Thalassery) India. Strange asks that the extract be brought before the Council of the Society, if Harkness deems it of sufficient importance. This letter is dated 9 February, 1837. The extract, dated 4 September 1836, is written in a different hand. It concerns the attempt by Francis Rawdon Chesney to find an overland route to India via the Euphrates. Thomas Lumisden Strange recommends that the route should continue to be explored despite the loss of life on the expedition, and believed that the Persian Sultan 'might be induced to farm to us this division of his dominions'.