Letters to Vijayendrasuri

Author(s): Kashinath Sarak
Publisher: Yashodharma Mandir

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If you are now in these parts perhaps I may bave the good fortune to see you again, If you will let me know by mail of your whereabouts. I should certainly do my best to meet you.
With best greetings, yours faithfully,
FRANKLIN EDGERTON.
(10)
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,
September 19, 1928. Your Holiness and dear freind,
I have received your two letters of July 7 and August 8 last, and was very glad to hear from you again. The copy of the Chandra Prabha Vyakarana by Meghavijaya has not yet arri. ved. but will no doubt come in time, and I am sure I shall find it very valuable and useful. I thank you very heartily for the gift and appreciate your kindness in sedding it.
It is endeed true, as you heard, that my revered Guru, Professor Maurice Bloomfiel departed this life on June 13, 1928. It is the severest loss that could tave befallen our studies in this country, and to me one of the most serious personal losses that could have occured. He was a spiritual father to me, and one of the greatest man I ever knew. Indeed no one can po. ssibly take bis place in the world of scholarship. I have written a memorial sketch about him, which will be published in the 'Journal of the American Oriental Society'. When it appears I shall send you a copy, wbich you may be interested in reading and preserving with your records.
I have taken steps to have the information sent to you. which you desired for your nephew, who wishes to study Mech.