Dr.Chettiar's Correspondence

Letter to Sri. B. Gopala Reddi

Dr. ALAGAPPA CHETTIAR COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Alagappa College P.O.
Karaikudi

      18th May, 56.

Dear Mr. Gopala Reddi,

Ever since you left Madras for your home Province, which has now become an accomplished fact, I have not had the pleasure of meeting you and continuing the great friendship that I had the privilege of building up with you. i understand you are coming over to Madras in the next week or ten days for the Buddha Society proceedings. May I request you to kindly make it convenient to meet me in my bungalow during any one of the days of your stay in Madras.

I must crave your forgiveness for requesting you to come over when normally I would have called on you myself. But unfortunately I am confined to bed with a thigh fracture, due to cancer, which over-powered me during my visit to Delhi on 23rd March. It looks as though I may have to be in bed for quite a few months more before I can be any thing like my normal self again. But return to normalcy is expecting perhaps too much in the background of my dreadful illness. I shall certainly consider it a great privilege to receive you at my bedside if you can possibly make it convenient to do so.

With kindest regards,

Yours sincerely,

Sd. RM.Alagappa _ Chettiar
Hon'ble Sri. B. Gopala Reddi
Chief Minister, Andhra State
Kurnool
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Dr. ALAGAPPA CHETTIAR COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Alagappa College P.O.
Karaikudi

      18th August, 56.

Dear Mr. Gopala Reddi,

I am extremely grateful to you for the very kind message which you had sent for the opening of the Alagappanagar Polytechnic on the 13th July. The Polytechnic is proceeding step by step and making progress.

You might have read in the papers, that our revered President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad was kind enough to call at my bedside on the 11th August and make enquiries of my health. It is great of that genuine soul to have called on a mere individual from the highest position he occupies in the land.

I have pleasure in enclosing an invitation for the inauguration of yet another institution - the Alagappa College of Physical Education at Karaikudi on the 27th August by the Rajpramukh of Mysore. I request you to kindly send me a message which can be read on the occasion.

I am still in bed and I am hoping to go to Karaikudi, of course to be carried by a stretcher in the train, so that I can physically be present to welcome the Highness when he arrives there on the 26th, though it will not be possible for me to participate in the function in any manner.

With kind regards,

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Yours sincerely,

Sd. RM.Alagappa _ Chettiar
Hon'ble Sri. Sri B. Gopala Reddi
Chief Minister, Andhra State
Kurnool
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