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344 to do this in a public form I suggested that it might be better to omit what you were unwilling to account for and merely allude to your illness which though not the sole was certainly a sufficient reason for resignation.

"You ask me to admit that you have had reasonable grounds of complaint. I am quite unable to admit this as to what is now assigned as your grievance—namely (1) that you thought the present system of Vernacular Education a waste of money, (2) that you often met with discouragement and (3) that your just claims to promotion have been passed over.

"It will be sufficient to say that I quite differ with you as to the last point and as to the second can see nothing in which you have ever been discouraged by me but the contrary, as to the first point it is a mere matter of opinion and moreover cannot relate to the special system of Vernacular Education with which only you had to do.

"I remain "Dear Sir, Yours faithfully, (Sd.) ".

"To Pundit Isvara Chandra Sarma.

Vidyasagar was happy that he had not even unwillingly and unintentionally put his friend into any inconvenience, and he expressed his