Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
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Sri Aurobindo — Unknown addressee
March 9, 1907
A Letter of Acknowledgement1
Deoghur,
9th March 1907.
Madam,
I beg to acknowledge, with many thanks, the receipt of Rs.10 forwarded to me by Mr. H. C. Das on your behalf towards the National University Fund.
Yours faithfully,
Aurobindo Ghose, Principal
Bengal National College.
1 9 March 1907. Sri Aurobindo was in Deoghar (a hill-resort in what is now Jharkhand) from mid January to early April 1907. He had gone to Deoghar for rest and recuperation after the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress (December 1906). While there he took care of some pending office work, such as writing this acknowledgement of a small donation to the National College Fund. Sri Aurobindo’s note was put in as evidence in the Alipore Bomb Trial (1908–9). The original has been lost. It was reproduced in a British government report on the trial, which was later reprinted in the collection Terrorism in Bengal, volume 4 (Calcutta, 1995), p. 682.