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১৯৪৫এ লেখা দুখানি পত্রে । ৪ নিবেদিতার পত্রাংশ ছুটি এইরকম। প্রথমটি বুদ্ধগয়ায় থাকার সময় মিস্ ম্যাকলিয়ডকে লেখা, রাজগির ১৫ অক্টোবর ১৯০৪ : The Poet, Mr. Tagore was ā perfect guest. He is almost the only Indian man I have ever seen who has nothing of the spoiled child socially about him. He has a naif sort of vamity in speech which is so childlike as to be rather touching. But he thinks of others all the time — as no one but a Western hostess could. He sang and chatted day and night— was always ready— either to entertain or to be entertained— served Dr. Bose as if he were his mother —struggles all the time between work for the country and the national longing to seek mukti. In short— never was any man so ridiculously maligned when suspected of things vulgar and immoral. But for all this, Mr. Tagore's is not the type of manhood that appeals to me. He is much more attractive to Christine. Letters of Sister Nivedita Vol II 1982 pp 685-687. দ্বিতীয় চিঠি শিলাইদহ বাসের অভিজ্ঞতা থেকে বিবরণ, শ্রীমতী ওলি বুলকে ৫ জানুয়ারি ১৯০৫এ লেখা : With all our trust and regard for the Poet-– and I am grateful to him for having been born 1– so tenderly does he love the Bairu [ 557-55; ), and so assiduously does he serve him — we are learning now to understand what it was that Swamiji felt about them all. Gradually as we exhausted what we had taken with us on Friday, we both felt the pressure of an atmosphere in which we could not draw breath— in which all had become common place, an atmosphere in which Bo and the Poet were absolutely 8 S