Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Letters
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Sri Aurobindo — The Sar Suba Saheb
June 1, 1895
To the Sar Suba, Baroda State1
Ootacamund.
June 1. 1895
Sir
I have the honour to report that I arrived at Ootacamund on Thursday the 30th instant and that I saw H.H. the Maharaja Saheb yesterday (Friday). It appears that His Highness wishes to keep me with him for some time farther, I have also the honour to state that as I desired a peon rather at Ootie than on the journey and even so it was not absolutely necessary, I did not think myself justified in taking advantage of your kind permission to engage one at Bombay as far as Ootie.
I beg to remain,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
Aravind. A. Ghose.
To
Rao Bahadur
the Sar Suba Saheb
Baroda State.
1 1 June 1895. In May 1895 Sri Aurobindo was summoned by the Maharaja to Ootacamund, a hill station in South India, in order to prepare a précis of a complex legal case. He wrote this letter to his superior shortly after his arrival in “Ootie”.