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9, Elysium Row, Calcutta. April 18th, 1903. Dear Mr. Tagore, You asked me to write you an account of the actual discoveries which Prof. Bose had made, & of the difficulties under which he had laboured in making them. But I imagine that you only want the kind of account that I can give you in a letter. I imagine, too, that in writing you a letter I am making a more or less confidential communication, so that I need not fear to use names occasionally knowing that I shall not be quoted in any public way. When I came to Calcutta I first knew Prof. & Mrs. Bose, in the end of the year 1898. I was horrified to find the way in which a great worker could be subjected to continuous annoyances & petty difficulties— with the evident earnest desire of those who were about him to end his distinction which was personally galling to- them. The college-routine was made as arduous as possible for him, so that he could not have the time he needed for investigation. And every little thing that happened was made an excuse for irritating correspondence & flagrant misrepresentation. These things may seem small in your eyes, but if you have the least idea (as you must have ) of how impossible it is to do work requiring great insight or great & sustained emotion, unless there is freedom & peace, you will know how wonderful it is that » 8ግ