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1671 Tenth Street, San Diego, California, 31 October, 1927.

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[preprinted: JESUS COLLEGE OXFORD]

Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, President of Stanford University,
Stanford University, California,

Dear Dr. Wilbur:-

Since my last visit to Stanford, in 1922, I have been continuing my educational and research work in India, making Oxford headquarters. I have recently sent to the Stanford Library a copy of my latest publication, The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Oxford University Press, 1927), which records some of the fruits of my researches in Northern Buddhism. A companion volume is now in process of being published by the same Press. My educational work in the East has led to the establishment of a School for Research in Oriental Religions and Philosophies at Rikhikesh on the Ganges, United Provinces, India.

The land upon which this School for Research has been founded was granted on perpetual lease by the Government; it comprises about 40 acres of valuable land surrounded by forest reserve, at an altitude of more than 1000 feet above sea level, at the base of the Himalayas and bordering on the Ganges River for almost one quarter of a mile. Attached to this property there is, as endowment for the School, a freehold estate (in my own name) of about 250 acres, near Puri, in the Province of Bihar and Orissa, now being developed to provide some support for the School.