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 Dr. S. K. Mullick¹

Bengal National College and School
166, Bowbazar Street
Calcutta, the 8^th Feb. [1908]²

Dear Dr Mullick,

Your students have asked me to visit the National Medical College. They want to come for me here at 3.30. Will it inconvenience you if the thing is delayed for a while as I have very important work at the Bande Mataram Office from 3 pm? They might come for me there at 4.30 –

Yours sincerely

Aurobindo Ghose

[Dr. Mullick’s reply:]

Let us split the difference with 4 pm

Excuse haste am lecturing

SKM

¹ 8 February 1908. Dr. Sharat Kumar Mullick (1869/70–1923/4), a physician with an interest in nationalist politics and national education, was a lecturer in the National Medical College in 1908. Sri Aurobindo was principal of the Bengal National College in 1906 and 1907, and kept some connection with it until May 1908. From the end of 1906, however, his main occupation was the editing of the newspaper Bande Mataram. He dated this letter Calcutta, 8 February 1907. The year is certainly wrong. He is known to have been in Deoghar without a break between January and April 1907, and is known to have been in Calcutta on 8 February 1908. On that day he attended a meeting of the Bande Mataram company in the office of the newspaper. It may be this meeting to which Sri Aurobindo alludes in his letter.

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² MS 1907. See Note on the Texts, page 576. – Ed.

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