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1. LETTER TO SHAH JAMIL ALAM ASHRAM, SABARMATI, April 2, 1926 I have your letter. A pure heart enable[s] one to find and see truth. Every one of us therefore must aim after purity of heart. All else follows as a matter of course. From a photostat : S.N. 11057 2. LETTER TO A. JOSEPH April 2, 1926 DEAR FRIEND, I have your letter enclosing copies of your letters to The Hindu and to Mr. Satyamurti. I have also copies of The Hindu containing the advertisements referred to by you. I am entirely of opinion that advertisements about things injurious to the nation should not be taken by public journals at all but it is very difficult for me to interfere in such matters. I can only express my own opinion through the columns of Young India which I do from time to time. As you might have noticed, I had occasion to refer to this matter of immoral advertisements1 only recently. Yours sincerely, A. JOSEPH, ESQ. 519, SILVER STREET ST. THOMAS MOUNT MADRAS From a photostat : S.N. 12162 3. LETTER TO DIRENDRANATH DAS GUPTA ASHRAM, SABARMATI, April 2, 1926 DEAR FRIEND, I have your letter with a report of khadi work. Satis Babu was 1 Vide “Exercise the Copyright”, 25-3-1926. VOL.35 : 2 APRIL, 1926 - 7 JULY, 1926 1 here recently, and I had a talk about you with him. He told me thet he was anxious to help you all he could. I have really no money apart from the Charkha Sangh fund that I can send you and the Charkha Sangh fund can only be utilized in the ordinary manner. I do hope therefore that you will write to Satis Babu and secure help you want through him. Yours sincerely, SJT. DIRENDRANATH DAS GUPTA VIDYASHRAM BEAMIBAZAR P. O. SYLHET From a microfilm : S.N. 19409 4. LETTER TO C. V. KRISHNA ASHRAM, SABARMATI, April 2, 1926 MY DEAR KRISHNA, I hope you received my letter1 about Hanumantharao which was written immediately after your telegram was received. I hope also that you received my telegram. Together with your letter, I sent a letter for Mrs. Hanumantharao and another for his brother. I am anxious to know whether they have been received. I now send you a letter which was addressed to Hanumantharao and which has been returned undelivered. I send it to you as it contains a reference to the Ashram. I am anxiously waiting for a letter from you. Yours sincerely, SJT. KRISHNA NELLORE From a microfilm : S.N. 19410 1 Dated March 21, 1926 2 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI 5. LETTER TO N. S. VARADACHARI AND S. V. PUNTAMBEKAR ASHRAM, SABARMATI, April 2, 1926 DEAR FRIEND, Your joint production1 is now being revised and I am sorry to observe that there are too many defects in it. You have expected the proof-reader to find out books and the references you want quoted. How can the books be found? Where you have not given pages, how is one to find the quotations? Do you not think that the quotations should have been neatly copied out by yourself and references given? Nor have you supported all your statements with references in footnotes. Proper names have been written as if they were ordinary words. It is very difficult to trace all the names so written. The collection too seems to have been hastily done. The printing is almost held up on account of these defects. I do not know how I can cope with the difficulty that stares in the face. Where can I find the references? Can you suggest a way out of the difficulty? If one of you come here and fill in the gaps, it would expedite matters. Or if you wish, I could send a copy to one of you. The letter is posted to both of you at your respective addresses. Yours sincerely, SJT. N. S. VARADACHARI ERODE SJT. PUNTAMBEKAR HINDU UNIVERSITY BANARAS From a microfilm : S.N. 19411 1 Hand Spinning and Hand Weaving—An Essay by S. V. Puntambekar and N. S. Varadachari VOL.35 : 2 APRIL, 1926 - 7 JULY, 1926 3 6. LETTER TO DEVCHAND PAREKH ASHRAM, SABARMATI, Friday [April 2, 1926]1 BHAI DEVCHANDBHAI, I have your letter. I note that the committee2 meets here on the 13th at 2 o’clock. I shall be ready. Blessings from BAPU From a photostat of the Gujarati : G.N. 5711 7. LETTER TO MATHURADAS TRIKUMJI ASHRAM, SABARMATI, Friday [April 2, 1926]3 CHI. MATHURADAS, I have your telegram. Surely it does not mean that your health has taken a turn for the worse? Blessings from BAPU SJT. MATHURADAS TRIKUMJI WINDY HALL NASIK ROAD DEOLALI (G.I.P.) From the Gujarati original: Pyarelal Papers. Nehru Memorial Museum and Library. Courtesy: Beladevi Nayyar and Dr. Sushila Nayyar 8. LETTER TO PRABHUDAS GANDHI SABARMATI ASHRAM, Friday [April 2, 1926]4 CHI. PRABHUDAS, I have just received a wire from Mathuradas saying that 1 From the postmark 2 Working Committee of the Kathiawar Political Conference 3 From the postmark 4 From the postmark. Also April 2 was a Friday. 4 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI Devdascannot be spared from Deolali. Mahadev tells me that Swami himself will be going there in a day or two. I will know more today. If he goes, he himself will bring you along with him. If he does not go, Pritamlal will go and bring you back with him. If neither of them is likely to go, I will send somebody from here. Blessings from BAPU SHRI PRABHUDAS GANDHI PATTANI’S BUNGALOW LONAVALA (G.I.P) From the Gujarati original : S.N. 33038 9. LETTER TO HERBERT ANDERSON1 ASHRAM, SABARMATI, April 3, 1926 DEAR FRIEND, I have your letter. I am enquiring about Young India. It is true that subscriptions are all reckoned from quarter to quarter or year to year. Otherwise, book-keeping becomes a most difficult thing. The proper way therefore is to subscribe from the 1st of March and to get the previous numbers commencing with the biographical chapters. I am sending herewith either a copy of my criticism on the Prohibition Convention or a copy of Young India containing the criticism if the latter is possible. With reference to the last paragraph of your letter : In the prohibition campaign you refer to, picketing was the essence of that campaign. It was done under the most adverse circumstances including opposition, both silent and open, as you will have seen from the report of enquiry conducted in Assam by Mr. Andrews. The only lasting remedy is total prohibition because, the drunkard is a diseased man quite unable to help himself. Many of them would gladly welcome outside help in the shape of total prohibition. The two 1 In reply to his letter dated 30-3-1926. Herein the addressee had request for a message for the first issue of his quarterly, Prohibition VOL.35 : 2 APRIL, 1926 - 7 JULY, 1926 5 things, therefore, have, in my opinion, to go side by side. Yours sincerely, Encl. REV. HERBERT ANDERSON 59, KING’S ROAD HOWRAH From a photostat : S.N. 12166 10. LETTER TO L. GIBARTI 1 ASHRAM, SABARMATI, April 3, 1926 DEAR FRIEND, I have your letter for which I thank you. I appreciate the sentiment underlying your proposal. But I consider myself wholly unfit to shoulder the burden. My methods too of serving the oppr- essed people are so different from those generally accepted by Socialists and they are yet in the nature of an experiment. I therefore fight shy of belonging to any organization that I do not know thoroughly and that I cannot serve usefully. Yours sincerely, L. GIBARTI, ESQ. SECRETARY INDIAN DEPT. LIGAGEGEN KOLONIALGREUEL UND UNTERDRUCKUNG BAMBERGER STR. 60 BERLIN, W, 50 From a photostat : S.N. 12458 11. LETTER TO HELENE HAUSSDING ASHRAM, SABARMATI, April 3, 1926 DEAR FRIEND, I have your letter. I am glad that your persistence has been 1 In reply to the request on behalf of the League against Cruelties and Suppression in the Colonies to include Gandhiji’s name as the International Chairman for India. This League had its branches in many countries. 6 THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI rewarded and that you will be soon in our midst. I am not going to discourage you any longer now, nor give you any warning. I am hoping that you will be able to retain your health here and that you will have no cause for disappointment. I shall try my best to make you comfortable and to keep you employed. The specimen of wool of your own spinning that you have sent is quite good. Yes, the name of the bank is “Bank of Baroda, Ahmedabad”. Do please bring your sewing machine as also your music and all the books of your library. You shall have all the necessary assistance for learning Hindustani. Yours sincerely, FRAULEIN HELENE HAUSSDING 26, LINDENBERGSTRASSE WERNIG ROAD, a.HARZ From a photostat : S.N. 12459 12. LETTER TO D. V. RAMASWAMI ASHRAM, SABARMATI, April 3, 1926 DEAR FRIEND, I have your letter. I note that you have not yet received the letters1 I sent to you and the widow through Krishna2. I have no doubt, that for the time being, at any rate, you must continue to earn and simplify as much as possible the lives of those who are dependent on you. In the letter to the widow I have said that if she would come to the Ashram to be here, she will be welcome and the Ashram people will give her all the attention that is possible.
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