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Rh trouble you with a request to do something for me. I am in difficulties, and I find it almost impossible for me to put over them without a fresh source of income. About this time in the last year, you were pleased to ask me whether I was willing to re-enter the public service. I think I expressed my unwillingness at the time, but what was then a matter of choice has now become a matter of necessity.

"Trusting to be excused for the trouble

"I remain, &c. Sd. "Isvar Chandra Sarma."

This was what Beadon wrote to him in reply:—

"My dear Pundit,

"I will bear your wishes in mind. But I do not, at present, see any way in which I could find you suitable employment in the public service.

"Yours truly Sd. "C. Beadon."

In the mean time his circumstances grew more embarrassing every day, and he began to seriously think of re-entrance into Public Service on some lucrative employment. About three years after his correspondence with the Lieutenant Governor, referred to above, he was informed, though wrongly, that a Professor of Sanskrit was about to be newly appointed in the Presidency College at Calcutta. He then wrote again to Beadon, praying for the appointment. The letter is quoted below:—