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allowed to go in the same way as they do now, unspeakable misery will be the lot of the people who are systematically deprived of the necessaries of life, I myself, however, am in good health and hope to continue to work though at present I am not up to the task. I remain with hearty greetings,
Yours very sincerely
H. JACOBI.
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Bonn the 4th. June 1924,
Niebuerstrasse 59. Dear Sir,
I received your kind letter dated 3rd May and your 'Reminiscences of Vijaya Dharma Suri', best thanks for either. I have read with interest your book, it brings to a focus the various impressions which your hero and saint has made on men of most diverse kind, during his career in this world, and it thus, by a sort of grote describes the man and his work.
You complain of my not having written to you for so long a time. My advancing age-I am now past 74—and occassional ailings make me a remiss correspondent. And besides, I know you to be under the weight of heavy duties so that you must not be disturbed for trifles.
In the course of some literary research I had to go over parts of the Prabhavaka Charitra and was struck by the faultiness of the text in the Nirnaya Sagara Press edition of 1909. Is there no more recent and reliable edition of that work?
It would be a meritorious task for one of your scholars to Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
