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Gandhi's letter to Lord Ampthill

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2014

Mohandas Gandhi
Edited by
Anthony J. Parel
Anthony J. Parel
Affiliation:
University of Calgary
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In this letter, Gandhi gave Lord Ampthill also a preview of HS. Upon receipt of the letter Lord and Lady Ampthill invited Gandhi for a private lunch and to discuss its contents. Unfortunately, the lunch had to be cancelled due to the sudden illness of their son. No new date was set for a lunch as Gandhi had to leave London for South Africa on 13 November 1909. (For the text of Ampthill's lunch invitation see his letters of 4.11.1909 and 7.11.1909 to Gandhi in the Sabarmati Ashram Grantalaya Collection, SN 5152 and 5165.) [Ed.]

October 30, 1909

London

My Lord,

I have for some time past been wishing to place before Your Lordship the result of my observations made here during my brief stay on the nationalist movement among my countrymen.

If you will permit me to say so, I would like to say that I have been much struck by Your Lordship's candour, sincerity and honesty of which one notices nowadays such an absence among our great public men. I have noticed too that your imperialism does not blind you to matters of obvious justice and that your love of India is genuine and great. All this coupled with my desire to withhold nothing from Your Lordship regarding my own activity about Indian matters as they may have a direct or an indirect bearing on the struggle in the Transvaal, emboldens if it does not require me to inform you of what I have seen.

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Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings , pp. 132 - 134
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009

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