Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother

5 August 1936

My dear Mother,

I asked the Bangalore vegetable vendor to get more cabbage on the 12th, but he got it this week by mistake. So we will serve vegetables for 4 days: Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Monday.

Will it keep up to Monday? The cabbages get rotten very easily. It seems to me that it would be safer to make the dishes of Thursday, Friday and Saturday bigger and to use them all within these 3 days.

Again, how shall we cook them—in curry or make salad?

I think the visitors will like curry better than salad.

My dear Mother, I hope that we shall pass these busy days quietly. No doubt attacks will come to me, yet I have eternal hope.

To be calm and quiet is the first necessity, and for that do not worry too much about details during these days. I am sure each one will do his best and more can be asked from nobody. Evidently this "best" must progress and become better but that takes time and cannot be expected at once.

Always with you, my dear child

5 August 1936