[Letter to Raju]

Summary

A short handwritten note dated 28 November 1975, written on Oberoi Grand Hotel (Calcutta) letterhead and mailed by air mail to S. V. Raju in Bombay. The writer acknowledges receipt of Raju’s letter of the 26th and then asks him to book a specific sequence of Indian Airlines reservations for an upcoming Bombay-Madras-Calcutta-Bombay circuit: IC 109 Bombay-Madras on Monday the 8th at 6:55 a.m., IC 266 Madras-Calcutta on Tuesday the 9th at 11:20, and a return leg Calcutta-Bombay on Thursday the 11th (IC 176) at around 16:55, together with a Madras hotel booking. The note closes with an instruction to “Please send papers home” and a signature.

The second rendered page is the accompanying airmail envelope, franked with a 25-paise India stamp and addressed in the same hand to “Mr. S. V. Raju, c/o Personnel & Productivity Services, 148 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay 23.” There is no argumentative or political content in the item; it is a piece of working correspondence documenting the sender’s travel logistics and reliance on Raju as an administrative point of contact in Bombay.

Key points

• Handwritten note on Oberoi Grand Hotel, Calcutta letterhead, dated “November 28” (1975 per the filename).
• Acknowledges Raju’s letter of the 26th and immediately turns to logistics.
• Requests a specific chain of Indian Airlines reservations: IC 109 Bombay-Madras on Monday the 8th at 6:55 a.m.; IC 266 Madras-Calcutta on Tuesday the 9th at 11:20; a Calcutta-Bombay return (IC 176) on Thursday the 11th around 16:55.
• Also asks for a Madras hotel booking for the intervening night.
• Closes with a housekeeping instruction: “Please send papers home.”
• Second page is the airmail envelope, addressed to S. V. Raju c/o Personnel & Productivity Services, 148 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bombay 23, franked with a 25-paise Indian stamp.