[Letter to Mr Minoo Masani]

Summary

This one-page personal letter from C. Rajagopalachari to M. R. Masani is dated 20 February 1964 and written from Rajagopalachari’s Madras letterhead. Rajagopalachari says he was delighted to read a letter Masani had written fourteen years earlier and reflects that the older letter showed Masani to be a person of good sense even then.

The letter is warmly complimentary and retrospective rather than argumentative. Rajagopalachari tells Masani that he has grown since the earlier correspondence “in every respect,” and closes with a personal blessing and a handwritten signature.

Key points

• The document is a personal letter from C. Rajagopalachari to M. R. Masani.
• It is dated 20 February 1964 and sent from Madras.
• Rajagopalachari refers to reading a letter Masani wrote fourteen years earlier.
• He praises the earlier letter as evidence of Masani’s good sense.
• He says Masani has grown since the earlier correspondence in every respect.
• The letter closes with a warm personal blessing and Rajagopalachari’s signature.