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revered by all sects. When this book is published, I hope to make a plan for rendering Jaina canonical literature in general more accessible to European scholars and I would invite your cooperation.
Many thanks for your kind inquiries concerning my health and work. Although 67 years old, I do not feel at all enfeebled and I manage to work as many hours each day as before, despite a really enormous amount of business and correspon dence. Perhaps I may revisit India some day, as my son and daughter are now grown up and require less attention. I envy Professor Norman Brown the pleasure of meeting you and experiencing your kindness.
I hope that all is well with you in respect of health and work and of the property of the community which you so faithfully direct.
Yours very sincerely,
F. W. THOMAS
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161, Woodstock Road, Oxford.
September 7, 1937. My dear friend,
It gives me great pleasure to be writing to you again. I have always been pained to think of my apparent neglect, as exhibited by my failure to write, and I have hoped that in due time the intensity of my preoccupations would be diminished and then I could become a better correspondent. Now that I have terminated my Oxford Professorship this hope may be realised atleast when I shall have given the final touches to one Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
