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I hope that your studies, as well as your religious work, are prospering. I did not forget to inquire in Sweden concern. ing the Ultar adhyayan Mss., lent as you explained in your letter of July 20, 1936, to the late Dr. Jarl Charpentier. I have now received a letter, dated January 30, 1938 from Professor H. S. Nyberg of Upsala, who says :
"After having ransacked all the papers left by our late friend we have only to state that there is not a single trace of the Mss. you mentioned. I have not the faintest idea of what has been the fate of it, and I never heard Jarl Charpentier speak of it. It is perhaps not quite excluded that it has been lost on its journey back to India, personally I have had several bad experiences of the Indian post”.
I hope that some day the Mss. may be returned to you. On my return to England I will bear the matter in mind. With all kind remembrances.
Yours sincerely, F. W. THOMAS
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Mysore,
June 24, 1938, My dear friend,
I shall now soon be leaving India and the time has come for arranging to see you, if it is convenient to you. Your last kind letter has unfortunately been packed up, so that I am unable at this moment to consult it. But I remember that you are to be in AGRA throughout this summer and accordingly I hope that this letter will reach you there.
I expect to be in Mysore for about a day and then to go on to Poona for one day or two, after which I shall go down
Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
