A Set of Three Typed Letters in English Signed by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, M O Mathai, and Dr S Radhakrishnan, Along with a Signed Book by Dr S Radhakrishnan
a) Typed letter in English signed by Pandit Nehru ("Jawaharlal Nehru"), to Mrs Jame Seymour Blomfield on letterhead of Anand Bhavan, Allahabad [Nehru family residence] dated April 8, 1940, single page, 16 x 13.2 cm
Typed "From: Jawaharlal Nehru / April 8, 1940 / Mrs Jame Seymour Blomfield / The Firs / Coldwater / New York (U.S.A) / Dear friend, / Thank you for your letter of February 15th and for your sympathy and good wishes. I have read / with great interest the quotation from a Russian / author's letter to you. It is significant and I can / well understand it. It is good to realise that / there are so many people in different parts of the / world aiming at a new order. Our problems are, after all, all linked up together and probably the / solution will come for all of us. / With all good wishes, / Yours sincerely," / Jawaharlal Nehru's signature in black ink
b) Typed letter in English signed by M O Mathai (Private Secretary to Jawaharlal Nehru), to Mrs Jame Seymour Blomfield dated 8 December 1947 with a seal of the Prime Minister's Secretariat, India at top left corner. The letter has some typographical corrections done by M O Mathai. Single page, 14.2 x 12.5 cm
Typed "17 York Road, / New Delhi. / 8 December 1947. / Dear Friend, / Jawaharlal Nehru desires me to / acknowledge receipt of your letter / and to thank you for the kind senti- / ments expressed 'therein.' (handwritten in blue ink) / Yours sincerely, / M O Mathai's signature in blue ink / (M.O.Mathai) / Private Secretary to / the Prime Minister. / Jane Seymour Blomfield, / Elizabethton, / Tennessee, / (U.S.A)
c) Typed letter in English signed by Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, to Dr Sherwood Eddy dated January 24, 1958 on the Vice President of India's letterhead with India's state emblem seal in the upper left. The letter has some typographical corrections done by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Single page, 17.6 x 11.2 cm
Typed "January 24, 1958 / Dear Dr. Sherwood Eddy, / Thank you for your letter of / January 22. / I shall be glad to see you on / Thursday, the 13th February 1958, / at 4 P.M. at my residence 2, King / Edward Road, New Delhi. / Yours sincerely, S Radhakrishnan with short signature in blue ink [RadhaK] / Dr. Sherwood Eddy, / C/o Mr. W.A.Jarvis, / St. Stephen's College, / Imperial Avenue, / Near Delhi University, / Delhi"
d) S Radhakrishnan, The Hindu View of Life, London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, thirteenth impression
133 pages; original hardback with dust jacket
19 x 12.5 x 1.8 cm
Printed presentation slip by Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan pasted on front freed endpaper and signed below in full in blue ink as "S Radhakrishnan". Also short signature [RadhaK] in black ink on the title page.