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I hope that your work will continue to prosper and send you herewith my best wishes for continud success in all your undertakings.
Faithfully yours, MAURICE BLOOMFIELD.
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Baltimore, October 20, 1923.
My dear Acharya and friend,
I should have, perhaps, acknowledged your letter sooner, but that I was waiting for specific answers to questions put to the late and venerated Acharya Maharaj Vijaya Dharma Suri. Now let me first congratulate you with all my heart upon the high, pontifical honour that the Jains of India have shown you. Any one acquainted with Jain literature knows full well what is required of a man before the Jains may and can honour him supremely. In turn such devoted souls as yours and that of the late Vijaya Dharma Suri refelect in their representative positions the greatest honour upon the community, and point out what is otherwise well known that the Jainas are a veritable oasis in the desert of human strife and worldly ambition. It were a better world indeed if the world were Jain. I send you, in addition to my congratulations the genuine wish that your example and your activities may give strength and increase to your noble, that noble Dhanya whose life is implicated with that of the Sage Salibhadra in the Salibhadra Caritra. Be
this as it may, I am just now putting them the press a treatise Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
