Mallick has just died, so I can’t go there now. But I will receive letters addressed to me there.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Letters
Letter ID: 2900
Sri Aurobindo — Mrinalini (Sri Aurobindo’s wife)
March 2, 1906
[Translated from Bengali]
2 March 1906
Dearest Mrinalini
Today I will leave for Calcutta. I was due to go long ago. The leave was sanctioned but the big men in Baroda couldn’t find time to sign it, so I have lost ten days for nothing. At any rate I shall reach Calcutta on Monday. I don’t know where I will stay. It may not be possible to stay at Na-mashi’s.1 I have given up fish and meat. I may not eat them again in my life. But why should Na-mashi listen to that? Besides it would not be good if I could not find a secluded place. I have to do a number of things alone for an hour and a half in the morning and an hour and a half in the evening. All that cannot be done in front of others. 12 Wellington Square was quite suitable for me, but Hem Mallick has just died, so I can’t go there now. But I will receive letters addressed to me there.
I will try to go to Assam as you ask. But once I set foot in Calcutta everyone catches hold of me. I will have a thousand things to do. I won’t get time to visit my relatives. If I do go to Assam I will only be able to stay three or four days. Bari can very well bring you. I can send Ranchhod along with him. If I go, it probably won’t be this month. I’ll see when I get to Calcutta. Another possibility is that if Sarojini wants to go to Calcutta, Bari can take her there and I can bring her back a month later when I go. I’ll fix things up when I get to Calcutta.
Sri Aurobindo Ghose
1 Na-mashi in Bengali means fourth maternal aunt.