Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother

17 January 1938

Mother,

The Ideal of Human Unity is out of print — perhaps luckily, since it was printed in a very shabby way in Madras. If you like, I’ll send to Lord Nuffield Ideal and Progress, The National Value of Art, Superman, Evolution, and whatever else I can find of general interest, besides War and Self-Determination. What do you say?

Yes — these books will do.

In your letter you have said, “If H could be introduced by someone who knows Nuffield well and would take some interest”. How much is H to tell this intermediary? Is it advisable to say that he wants Nuffield to give a substantial sum of money to the Asram? Or should he just talk about the yogic work of Sri Aurobindo and say that he would like to interest Nuffield in it. Perhaps it may not be nice to be specially secretive if somebody is good enough to be of assistance?

There is no necessity to be at all secretive about it to the intermediary.

17 January 1938