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SRR बौवन-ब्रिड । future use. I hope you will write to Rajendra-to say that you are not angry with him. I have promised to make peace between you ; pray, don't let me find that I have no influence over you at all. Rangalal says, he never received your letter. He is very proud of your approbation : of course, I have not told him what you and I think of his prose. He is a very touchy fellow, more so than a sensible poet should be. He is writing another tale about Rajputana. Byron, Moore & Scott form the highest Heaven of poetry in his estimation. I wish he would travel further. He would then find what "hills peep o'er hills"-what 'Alps on "Alps arise " As for me, I never read any poetry except that of Valmiki, Homer, Vyasa, Virgil, Kalidas, Dante (in translation), Tasso (Do) and, Milton. These refrigates ought to make a fellow a first rate poet-if Nature has been gracious to him, I f must now conclude Hoping to hear from you, with kind regards, July Ist, 186o. YOURS AS EVER MODHU SUDANDUTT, Please tell Gour I have sent a copy of Tilottama for him to his cousin, at the Asiatic Society, not knowing where he himself is posted at present, M. S. D, বিংশ পত্র । MY DEAR RAJ NARAIN, Many thanks for your kind letter and the volume of