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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI
Lakshmidasbhai? What are you studying at present? I hope you knowthat Ba is there just now, and also that Ramdas is ill.
Blessings from
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From a photostat of the Gujarati: G. N. 4071. Also C.W. 22. Courtesy: ShantaPatel
3. LETTER TO VALLABHBHAI PATEL
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September 16, 1934
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BHAI VALLABHBHAI,
I got your letter. The Kaka affair has become a painful one. Butyou should laugh away the thing. It will all subside by and by. I think there is no malice behind the outcry. I am trying to calm it and hopeto succeed. There is nothing but simple misunderstanding behind thewhole affair. I will not let Kaka go in this manner. I have sent you acopy of the letter
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I have written to Mavalankar.Kaka has been laid up with fever from the very next day after hearrived here. The temperature has not come down even once. It wasabove 100° this morning. It rises to 102°. There are no othersymptoms, except cold and a little cough. There is some fear that itmay be typhoid. Write a brief note to him.Jones
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is better but not quite well. Write a few lines to him also.Dr. Khan Saheb
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examines him.Both the brothers went to Akola yesterday. They were draggedto Khamgaon from there. They were to return today, but now theywill return tomorrow.
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The address is supplied from the manuscript of Mahadev Desai’sDiary.
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From the manuscript of Mahadev Desai’s Diary
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Vide
“Letter to G.V.Malvalankar”, 15-9-1934.
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Stanley Jones, an American missionary
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Elder brother of Abdul Ghaffar Khan