Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
CWSA 35
Does Not Grant Interviews or Personal Darshans [5]
I am afraid I don’t see how I can see William Arthur Moore – how can I extend to him so extraordinary a privilege (since I see nobody) which I would not have conceded to Sarat Chatterji? 
You say Barin certifies him as a bhakta – but Barin’s language is apt to be vivid and exaggerated; he probably means only an admirer. I think he must be answered that certainly he would have been allowed a meeting with me if I had been coming out but the entire seclusion has been taken as a rule for Sri Aurobindo’s sadhana and it may not be subjected to exception so long as the rule is in force. If he is really a bhakta, that will give him a ray of distant hope and if he isn’t, the impression made does not very much matter. Barin surely exaggerates the power of the publicist – after all he is only the editor of the Statesman – but even otherwise that is not the main consideration. By the way why have you transmogrified Moore into Jones? – there was a Jones there but he has departed and yielded the place to Moore.
17 August 1933