544 PURBABANGA GITIKA on a sound footing for some time, enabling Dr. Sen to carry out systematic researches on a wider scale, and subsequently to edit and publish the poems in a worthy 88. After a life-time of devotion to his mother-tongue Dr. Sen assures us that nothing but the limited financial resources available to him prevents him from enriching the Bengali language by a large volume of hitherto unknown poems of a remarkable and important character. I am sure that the wealth and culture of Bengai will res' rid it as a pious and patriotic duty to assist Dr. Sen to complete what may prove to be the most remarkable of his many services to his mother-tongue, an they will regard it as a point of honour that the proposed extension of his work would be financed not from official sources but from the private generosity of those whose literature his researches are enriching As the sum is a chimparatively small one, I do not think that a general appeal to the publin is necess...ry or desirable. If the facts are brought to the notice of a limited nanber of gentlemen interested in the language, literature and history of Bengal Iain sure they will readily provide the amount that is necessary for the prosecution of Dr. Sen's researches. I know that an interest in literature and the arts is traditional in your family, and that you personally appreciate the value and inportance of Dr. Sen's work. I therefore feel that I can confidently appeal to you to undertake the duty of collecting the Rs. 15,00) required.
