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Notes on the Texts
Record of Yoga: 11 November-31 December 1913. The Record of 11-23 November was kept on four pieces of writing paper folded to form sixteen narrow pages. On 24 November, Sri Aurobindo returned to the exercise book containing most of the Record for April, May, July and September 1913 (published in the last issue). Except for the period between 1 and 12 December, during which a separate Record was kept on loose sheets of paper, this notebook continued to be used daily until 21 December, when its last page was reached. The heading "Record of Yoga / Dec 22d 1913..." was written by Sri Aurobindo on the front cover of the exercise book used for the Record of 22-31 December 1913 and 1-15 January 1914.
Fragmentary Draft Letter. The surviving portion of this draft (its beginning has not been found) was written on one side of a sheet of paper that on the other side was used for part of a relatively early draft of Savitri. It is not possible to assign an exact date to the Savitri-draft; but it must have been written between 1915 and 1925. The letter draft certainly belongs to the same period. The "volume of poems" mentioned in the last paragraph may have been either Songs to Myrtilla (2nd edition c. 1900, 3rd edition 1923) or Ahana and Other Poems (1915). See Bibliographical Data for a discussion of this point. It is not known who the intended recipient of the letter was; but it may have been C. R. Das, with whom Sri Aurobindo was in correspondence around 1922. |