Sri Aurobindo
Autobiographical Notes
and Other Writings of Historical Interest
Part Two. Letters of Historical Interest
1. Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890–1926)
Letters and Telegrams to Political and Professional Associates 1906–1926
To Bipin Chandra Pal1
Wednesday.
Dear Bepin Babu,
Please let us know by bearer when and where we can meet yourself, Rajat and Kumar Babu today.
Subodh Babu is going away today, and there are certain conditions attached by Dickinson to the arrangement about the type which it may be difficult to get him to agree to. Yet it must be done today if it is to be done at all. Can you not come by 3 o’clock and help us to persuade Subodh Babu to give signature before he goes.
Yours sincerely.
Aurobindo Ghose
1 1906. Bipin (also spelled “Bepin”) Chandra Pal (1858–1932) was a nationalist speaker and writer. Sri Aurobindo apparently wrote this note to him in September or October 1906. At 
this time, Pal was editor-in-chief of the nationalist newspaper Bande Mataram and Sri Aurobindo was its chief writer. This note was put in as evidence in the Alipore Bomb Trial (1908–9). The original has been lost. The text is reproduced here from a “paperbook” or printed transcript of the documentary evidence.