June

      19 Mon Messiah performance with D^r Ghose

      Handel Festival

      W. W. C. [Working Woman's College]

      23 Fri Israel in Egypt & D^r Ghose's lecture

      25 Sun To Wood Lane with D^r Ghose

  July

      13 Th Told F. [her sister Fanny] of my wish to go to India.

      15 Sat 10/- Given to D^r Ghose.

      16 Sun Call on M^rsS. Banerjea 18 Tu To Store with Fanny

      Tea party of D^r Ghose M^r Hunter etc:

      23 Sun To Kew with D^r Ghose & M^r S. N.

      Banerjea

      August

      5 Sat To International with D^r Ghose & M^r Banerjea Concert. [December-January]

      So ends this eventful year: eventful publicly      

but still more so to me individually; because in it I have gathered again together a few of the fragments of what I was before my energies[,] heart & hope were shattered by my loss [the death of her father]. The end of the year leaves me full of hope. & courage, earnestly longing to fulfil some of the expectations of what an English -woman can do in that illimitable abyss of work to be done; but I am very "fearful" there must be such deep responsibilities! So there are everywhere! so coraggio!

      That last day of the Year & this first one bring many sad thoughts of the time when we were all together & heard the bells ring in the new; then turned to greet one another with the first kiss of the New Year. This year I am all alone, by chance; perhaps it is best [as] heart-ache is best alone, but coraggio again! & good-bye to the Old Year.

 January

      6 Sat Wrote Indian letters to D^r Ghose M^r Sen M^r Mozoomda[r.] Bengali lesson. July

      24 Wed Finished Indian letters - to M^r Sen, D^r Ghose, & M^r M. Ghose. Fanny came December

      9 Mon Reached Madras. Cap. & M^rs Miller & Col. Dun left.

Sent letters to Calcutta. 11 Wed Left Madras.

      14 Sat Reached Sandhead early in morning of this day.

      15 Sun Steamed up the river. Met by M^r & M^rs [Mano Mohun] Ghose

      23 Mon D^r Barry called. Called, at the B's Palace, & in Dalhousie Sq. R^d Rajnarari [sic] Bose etc: & M^r Sen

   August

      29 Fri To see Raj Narian [sic] Bose's family

January

      5 Fri The Glaziers, M^r Grierson M^r Baborian & the Doctor dined.

May

      7 Mon M^r Livesay, Grierson, M^r Robinson & the Ghoses dined.

June

      16 Sat Called on M^rs Ghose. August

      12 Sun Called on M^rs Ghose - got fever slightly.

September

      3 Mon M^rs Ghose's daughter born.

      11 Tu Called on M^re Ghose. The first

      18 Tu 6.30 a.m. To Kurseong. Breakfast at the Clarendon Hotel.

      3.10 p.m. To Darjeeling - arrived at 11.30 pm.

      29 Sat To the Loretto [sic] House to see the Doctor's little boys.

October

      2 Tu Walked to Loretto boys' school

      3 Wed Rode to cemetery to see M^r

 Woodrow's grave with M^r Brenner D^r G's boys to tea.

      11 Th Walked to Loretto boys' school.

November

      7 Wed Very unwell. Left Jalpi[guri] at 7 a.m. by train; Parbatipur by trolly at 2 p.m. (cir[?]) Badarganj with D^r G's big dog-cart, reached home at 8 p.m. (cir[?])

      23 Fri The Com: [Commissioner] M^r Livesay, Paterson, Ghose, Bolst dined

      27 Tu Mess[rs] Bellen Baborian Bolst Robinson Ghose dined. M^r Collier do [ditto] M^r Finney left

December

      20 Th D^r Ghose drove the first stake for the drainage camp. First fire [at home]. Called on [illegible].

      25 Tu D^r G. M^r R. & M^r P. to breakfast 31 Mon Left home for Kakina. Drove to Barihat - on elephants (three chokees) to Seesta - palki to bungalow. Present - M^r Livesay, M^r Clay, D^r M^rs & Miss Ghose [possibly one of K. D. Ghose's sisters] HB & ASB.

February

      17 Sun D^r G. dined

      21 Th M^r Anderson - D^r G. M^r Livesay -M^r Patten dined

April

      17 Wed Visited girls' school & drove to camp with D^r Ghose

May

      30 Th D^r Lethbridge M^r Liversay D^r

Ghose. M^r Baborian dined.

June

      2 Sun Drove to see the drainage works.

July

      17 Wed Called M^rs Ghose

November

      18 Mon D^r Ghose dined

 February

      9 Sun H's birthday. D^r G & M^r Bellen dined

April

      4Fri Called on M^rs Ghose & M^rs Ridsdale.

Friday. 17^th [February] Dined at M^r W. C. Bonerjea's, met M^r Miller & M^r Kennedy[.] There is a tone of mind which scoffs at everything about M^r W. C. B. which I dislike[,] a kind of superficiality. It is my opinion that there needs some binding association for high purposes to associate all these English educated men, who have gone beyond Brahmo limits.

Sunday 30th [March] Raj Narain Bose called. He stayed long, but his conversation was chiefly on the abstract & impractical difficulties of the education of women, & an entreaty to teach them Hindu manners. Elevating manners to the dignity of metaphysics he soared aloft into trackless realms of words.

   loss of my own people. To me it seems ages since I arrived, but it is only 2 weeks & 3 days. During the last week I have seen several funny sights! & have formed several distinct impressions. The chiefest is for yourself alone[.] I distrust M^r Sen—he is too soft-tongued—M^rs Phear says he does not always appreciate truth - Now mind that is only for you! I have visited the Asram & feel insulted that he should have asked me to live there. At any moment you may see a man with "legs" as M^rs Ghose & I call it. First we were met (we went wickedly when not expected) by a rough looking man in Bengalee dress, i.e. a cloth wound about the waist & falling down to the knees, then caught up between the legs by another cloth; he had a shawl on which partially covered him, but he had no stockings, & had just slipped his feet into his shoes. Now when such a man is a servant I don't mind him a bit, but when he is a Missionary & expects me to shake hands, I do mind him. You cannot think what a coarse looking thing a man's brown legs are when he has long exposed them to the outer air! Then having asked for Miss Lahiri, a dear girl located in the abode of bliss, we are conducted by a dirty servant & the "legs" up a dirty, broken staircase to the F. N. School-

 room. But M^rs Ghose said to me "Oh! no! we'll go into the Asram,["] so interrogated a girl who during the absence of "legs" took us, by a fearful little staircase "where the cleanly take up their dress & fear" to the prayer-room. Such a dirty court is looked into, such babies with no clothes, such a shutting up suddenly of doors—Bah! when I think of the way in which the place is written about in England & remember that K. C. S. knows English ways, I am disgusted. It is worse in one thing than zenana life—for there the women are protected from the immodest sight of the men in such deficient clothing. Fancy trying to bring up nice girls in such places—of course a great deal is excusable because only men tried to manage it. What however will you think of M^rs Phear's going one day & catching Miss Collet's model P. C. Mozoomdar teaching in the F. N. School in a waist cloth and nothing else. He it was who wrote to me those letters about woman & was so angry that I had "misjudged" K. C. S. Well! thank goodness I am here [at 14 South Circular Road]. D^r Ghose was so angry at the proposal that I should live there that he wrote to Keshub about it. There is nothing for it but boarding schools, I am sure.

are these huts, low, bamboo huts, which of course burn as well as hay or paper after a few months of dry weather; for roof & walls are composed of different parts of the bamboo. We saw a puff of white smoke come from the roof of one, then two or three people ran down to the water, with their pots & kettles in their hands & ran back to try & put out the fire. Of course they could not succeed & in a few minutes the whole hut was blazing— then the adjoining ones on all sides & so gradually the fire spread . . .

 Now I must tell you that I went to a very grand entertainment the other day. It was a nautch or dance given in honour of the marriage of a young

man, belonging to a very rich family. All the houses here in which Bengalis live are built round an open square. This square was roofed in with cloth & the whole most grandly decorated with pictures & wreaths of flowers. A gallery was round it, & in this behind screens the ladies of the families were assembled to peep at the ceremony. At one end of the court sat the bridegroom a boy of 16 or 17, cross-legged, with his hands hanging before him helplessly, under a canopy. He was splendidly dressed & wore jewels wherever they could be put . Servants stood behind & fanned him, but I think he must have been fearfully tired .. .

[written] Wednesday 29th

On Sunday afternoon I was present at the great open air meeting. It was held quite in the Bengalee quarter, & was numerously attended though not by 5000 people, I think (the number given in the "Mirror" reports). Judging from other crowds I should say that there were over 2000. ... It was a very fine sight , & artistically speaking there was one space of a few minutes which would have made a magnificent picture. Keshub's

 figure being elevated above the crowd, caught the light, some minutes after the audience was in shadow; the crowd below was dark & dusky, but his figure in his white drapery, which fell in graceful folds round him & with his arm upraised was brightly illuminated. He is marvellously graceful & appropriate in gesture, & I have never seen his personal presence so striking as on this occasion. His words were very simple & frequently repeated, so that I was able to understand most of his address.

Last night we had a dinner at Robinson's in Grierson's honour & Robinson and the Doctor [K. D. Ghose] made speeches to which Grierson replied in feeling terms. Poor fellow, he was about the heartiest man in Rangpore & I am sorry he is going though I think it the best thing for

 himself. He goes to [illegible] We are going to have a [illegible] meeting on Sunday & the Doctor will make a Bengalee speech. He told me yesterday that his wife's eccentricity has entered a new stage & that she now is always laughing at herself.

Bengalis ought to like those of us who work with them socially and I think do not dislike us—but it is not given to many to have the magnanimity D^r Ghose once expressed to me—in answer to a remark that one could hardly expect the English to be liked in India. He said: "Why not? We know they are as a race superior and can teach us much. Why not like them? Envy and the censoriousness of (according to modem lights) inferiority, with the irritation of wanting power they could not yield—are enough to make the Calcutta Babus dislike us. I believe per contra Ishbanda and Kakina and other smaller Mofussil men would not feel these things and could I believe feel real friendship for English people who treat them as

 they deserve. But as for "liking," as we among ourselves use the word, the same class of Babus, do we like them and on your rule can they like us?

      I don't mind confessing to you or them that I think their clamour for gov: appointments combined with their laziness in what concerns actual good—independence for themselves and commercial or other prosperity for their country—simply deserve contempt. The agitation seems to me to have originated in the idle newspaper set. Even the man who has gone to England, L. M. [Lal Mohun] Ghose is (probably) a comparatively unemployed man.

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