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420 Mufussil Female Schools, to the support of which you so kindly contributed, are progressing satisfactorily. Female education has begun to be gradually appreciated by the people of districts contiguous to Calcutta, and schools are being opened from time to time.

"Pundit Isvara Chandra Sarma:—

"I have now the pleasure to enclose a cheque for Rs 33 on account of Sir Cecil Beadon's subscription to the Female Schools for the half-year of 1866. This would have been sent before, but the cheque book was accidentally left behind.

From an Indian friend to Vidyasagar,

"The contribution you speak of, would have been made ere this, were it not for a difference of opinion between myself and brothers who contend by urging that as no practical benefit has hitherto