TLS signed “MK Gandhi,” one page, 6.5 x 8, May 10, 1927. A letter written from Sabarmati Ashram to I. Bamlet, Esquire, of the Imperial Bank of India. In full: “I have your letter for which I thank you. For me the problem of life is not quite so simple as it appears to you. I am sure you do not want me to enter into the reason for my conclusions. You believe in God’s guidance and so do I. Let me walk as He may seem to me to guide me. I may without using your name make the main contents of your letter [“as” crossed out] a text for an article in the pages of Young India edited by me. I suppose you will have no objection.” Gandhi was a frequent contributor to the periodical Young India in the 1920s, and it was in its pages that some of the most important precepts of his philosophy were outlined in print for the first time. Significantly, the “He” in the first paragraph (in reference to God) was originally typed as “he,” Gandhi then backspacing and overstriking the first letter with a capital “H”—a seemingly small but telling correction. Usual folds (slight edge separations, one with tape repair to verso, and pinhole at intersection) and tape remnant to verso, otherwise fine. COA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
