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books you want to have back, but I did not yet get a reply. Please inform me.
With kind regards.
Yours sincerely, HELMUTH VON GLASENAPP.
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17, Bendler Strasse, Berlin W. 10, August 27, 1927.
Dear Acharyaji,
Yesterday I have sent to you (registered) the books you want to have back. I am sorry for not having sent them to you at an earlier date, but I did not know that they were given to me as a loan only, as no name was written into them and in your letter dated July 17th, 1923, in which you did inform on the sending of the books, no mention was made of the fact that I have to give them back later on. If I should have known that, I should have returned the greatest part of them immediately because most of these books were already in the possession of our National Library where I could make peruse of them. As you never mentioned to me the titles of the books you wanted to get back, I am not able now after four years to send them back all, because I have given some of them to the National Library and some to a friend, which I beg to be excused for.
Professor Luders will arrive at the end of October in Colombo, he will come to Bombay later on, I shall tell him Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com