Pièce 28 - Letter from Shyam Bihari Misra to R. C. Trevelyan

Chhatarpur, Bundelkhand, C.O.[?]. – Trevelyan’s ‘kind letter of the 15th’ reached him in time. Was a ‘great pity’ that he could not meet them at the time of their departure, which he will ‘never cease to regret’. Hopes to see them again, either here or in England. Asks to be remembered to Mr Forster when Trevelyan next writes to him. Found the book he had lent to Trevelyan in the Guest House. Is glad that Trevelyan ‘really seem[s] to have enjoyed’ his visit to Chhatarpur, despite Mr Dickinson’s illness; hopes Dickinson is now ‘absolutely all right’. Will be pleased to read Trevelyan’s work, which he has ‘so kindly ordered’ for him; Trevelyan’s ‘illustrious father’s life of Macaulay is of course a standard work and can easily be had even in India’; hopes Trevelyan will ‘also attain the same or even higher eminence’.

Sends Christmas greetings to Trevelyan and Dickinson, and best wishes for the new year. Adds postscript that they have been ‘shocked to see the shocking telegram about the *shocking outrage at Delhi on the occasion of the Viceregal entry [the assassination attempt on Lord Hardinge]! I don’t know what to say abt it!! Horrible!!!’