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(bro জীবন-চরিত । ation-especially, Sir Joseph Cliffe (brother of the late Roman Catholic Bishop of Calcutta ) and Lord Degrecy. They have not yet complied with my request. They have kept your last letter to me to have it translated. I do not know whom they will find in Paris able to read Bengali. There are two Calcutta men, Messrs. De Souza and Mendes, but they are (Acts fiefsfer - men who say “বাবু তুমি ভাল আছি ?”- I shall know their decision next monday. I am taking every necessary step to get myself in a position to return about the end of the present year. I have even refused the offer of the Bengali Professor-ship at University College London, a post of great honor and dignity though without a salary. Dr. Goldstucker ( of whom you have no doubt heard) was very anxious to have me, but I told him plainly that I was too poor to live in England without a handsome salary. The Doctor is a profound Sanskrit scholar and loves al Hindus. We spoke about you (he knows you well by name ) and the remarriage of widows. He thinks that a well educated Bengali ought to be in England for the benefit of the Civil Service and through it of the Country at large. 17th January, 1866. We are now in the midst of a rigorous winter. For a poor man like myself London is dreadful. The Renderpest or Cattle-disease, of which you have, nodoubt, read in the papers, has made meat scarce and frightfully dear and we can scarcely manage to live for less than 6. 36 or rupees 36O a month,