য়ুরোপ-প্ৰবাস । V). এই সময়কার লিখিত কয়েকখানি পত্ৰ নিম্নে সন্নিবিষ্ট কবিতেছি ; পাঠক তাহা হইতে মধুসূদনের দুরবস্থা এবং সেই সঙ্গে বিদ্যাসাগর মহাশয় র্তাহাকে কিরূপ সাহায্য করিয়াছিলেন, অবগত হইতে পরিবেন । পঞ্চাশাৎ পত্ৰ । France, Versailles, 12 Rue des Chantiers, 2nd June, I864. MY DEAR SIR If you had been an ordinary man, I should begin this letter with a well-worded apology for not having written to you so long. But you know well that we never fly to a man in the hour of distress unless we regard that man as the truest and sincerest of our wellwishers and friends. You will be startled, I am sure, grieved to learn that I am at this moment the wreck of the strong and hearty man who bade you adieu two years ago with a bounding heart, and that this calamity has been brought upon me by the cruel and inexplicable conduct of men one of who im, at least, I felt strongly persuaded, was my friend and well-wisher. * 米 When I left Calcutta, my wife and two children remained behfhd, and it was arranged between my Patmeedar and myself that the formcr should give my family ISO Rs. a month. A part of the money was paid in advance and deposited in the Oriental Bank. This was in June 1862. How poor Mrs. Dutt was treated, I have not the patience to describe. They troubled her to such an extent that she absolutely fled from Calcutta with our two infants. She reached
