| Description | An exchange of letters (1969) with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi about Visva-Bharati and Sriniketan (including 3 letters from Gandhi); correspondence with President Zakir Husain (1 letter); fragments of a Calcutta diary or notes; notes made for a speech to the Alumni Association at Santiniketan, 15 Feb 1969 outlining Leonard Elmhirst's thoughts on higher education, at Cambridge and Santiniketan; letters from Gertrude and Boshi Sen; letters to and from Vice Chancellor Dhirananda Roy, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and Dr Samar Sen; M S Sikdar; death of Kalimohan Ghosh; Sujit K Chakravarthi; Navakumar Mukherjee. Lastly, the folder contains annotated typescripts and lists of questions prepared for a taped oral history interview with Leonard Elmhirst while at Santiniketan, discussing Rabindranath Tagore; and a typescript of translations of several of Tagore's last poems. |