Amrita's Correspondence with The Mother

5 March 1933

Mother,

I will need to buy the following material to make a mattress for Swasti: 2 maunds of cotton, 8 yards of printed cloth, 31/2 yards of unbleached cloth, and some one yard of coloured cloth for stitching the border. The mattress maker will take two days to make a new mattress. Is the work to be done in Arogya House No. 2 itself?

Yes.

We supply the material, is it not, Mother?

I do not understand what you mean. The mattress which is with Swasti was simply to be taken, undone, the cloth washed, the contents cleaned and the whole thing remade to the size of the cot in Swasti’s new room in Arogya No. 2. There had been no question of buying anything new and you speak as if we were doing altogether a new mattress!!

5 March 1933