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56/58 Walkeshwar Road, Malabar Hill, Bombay. 15th May 1921.
Venerable Sir,
I duly received your kind letter dated 1st instant and I beg you to excuse me that I am rather late in answering it, as I am overloaded with official work and the heat in Bombay is rather trying, that one is unable to work on "full speed” as he is accumstomed at home. Besides it, I was little ill with my right eye and I was obliged about a week or so not to work at all.
I was very glad to hear that Sri Acharya Maharaj is enjoying good health, as well as yourself. And I am also very glad to hear, that you will stay for your Chaturmasa in Dhulia, as it will be more convenient to me to come there, than to Agra or elsewhere in upcountry. I shall come to Dhulia as soon as the rain comes and the weather becomes little cooler, as it is quite impossible to travel now in a train.
I hear from you first time, that there is a philosophical institute in Amalner. I will be very glad to hear something more about it, as I am very greedy to visit. Perhaps I shall combine the visit to Amalner with the visit to Dhulia, going back via Baroda.
Dr. F. W. Thomas, as I hear, is going now to Katamandu in Nepal. He must be very lucky to see such places, which are hardly accessible to any other European. I tried to come to Nepal twelve years ago, during my first stay in India, but in vain. It must be a very interesting country, indeed. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
