Letter from Sri k. Hanumanthaiya

       21st September 1953

Dear Dr. Alagappa Chettiar,

I came back on Friday morning. I must thank you for having invited me to open-the first stage of the magnificent Engineering College which you have brought into existence by your munificence. Your hospitality, your good nature and the courtesies accorded to me and to all the members of my party have made my few days stay at Kottaiyur a happy memory. I most cordially invite you and your daughter to come as guests of the State and witness the Dasara Celebrations to be held at Mysore from the 16th to 18th October 1953. Thanking you, With best regards, Yours sincerely, Sd.. K. Hanumanthaiya. Chief Minister Mysore State Kumara Krupa Bangalore 21st September 1953. Dear Dr. Alagappa Chettiar, I came back on Friday morning. I must thank you for having invited me to open-the first stage of the magnificient Engineering College which you have brought into existence by your munificence. Your hospitality, your good nature and the courtesies accorded to me and to all the members of my party have made my few days stay at Kottaiyur a happy memory.

I most cordially invite you and your daughter to come as guests of the State and witness the Dasara Celebrations to be held at Mysore from the 16th to 18th October 1953. Thanking you,

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Chettiar's Calligraphy

letter to Sri K. Hanumanthaiya

Dear Mr, Hanumanthiaya,

I have pleasure in enclosing copies of the brochures of my Engineering College as well as of the Central Electrochemical Research Institute prepared and issued in connection with the visits of the Presi- dent Dr. Rajendra Prasad, and the Vice-President Dr. Radhakrishnan. I may take this occasion to inform you that Mr. D.S. Venkanna, formerly of your State Service (Retired Chief Engineer and Head of the Occupational Institute) has now joined us as Principal of the Engineering College since yesterday I trust the brochure will be of some interest to you and the 'Events & Dates', which I am enclosing, will give you some details about the efforts we make in various directions in furthering the objects of our educational endeavor.

Ever since I met you at Sir Shanmukham Chettiar's house the other day at Coimbatore in the company of the distinguished Dr. Bunche I have been anxious to call on you little leisurely and have the privilege of your acquaintance. I understand from the papers that you have recovered your normal good aheer.

I am arriving at Bangalore on the 31st morning by Air India and intend to stay for the day at Bangalore looking up the Krishnaraj Disposal Depot with a view to choose some equipment for the Engineering College in the company of my Principal, Sri Venkanna, and I intend to leave for Sringeri on the Ist April for a few days' stay in that sacred place of pilgrimage. I wonder whether you can find it convenħent to grant me a little time to enable me to meet you and just have a little talk. There is nothing very particular excepting my desire to call on you and cuħtivate you acquaintance. I shall be grateful if you could kindly reply to this letter to my Madras address (at Krishna Vilas, Vepery, Madras-7).

I look forward to the great day of receiving you in my college campus sometime soon.

Praying for your good health and with kind regards,

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Dear Mr. Hanumanthaiya,

I thank you for your very kind letter congratulating me on my speech at the South India Journalists Federation. It is kind of you to have thought of writing to me the moment you read something about my activities in the direction which pleases you. I have asked my College office to send you direct from Karaikudi a copy of my speech which, I trust, you will be getting tomorrow or the day after. Kindly accept my interest thanks once again for your very affectionate remembrance of your young friend.

While on this subject let me take the privilege of telling you that our programme for the College is going fast ahead by God's Grace. On the 21st of July this year the Alagappa College for Women is being inaugurated in my bungalow (where I had the privilege of receiving you) at Kottaiyur. The college is to be inaugurated by Shri Chintaman Deshmukh, Central Finance Minister and Srimathi Durgabai Deshmikh places the foundation stone for the new building right in the College Campus.

Our Engineering College will be entering its 3rd year this June end, and I am very very happy to inform you that the college is growing both in extent and intensity. We have also completed another building, the main administrative block. Our Engineering College Hostel is also under construction. So, in every possible direction I am making efforts to grow,, and thanks to the blessings and good wishes of distinguished friends like you and help of both the Central and the Madras Governments we are progressing step by step in the right direction. I feel happy in the thought that an Institution in whose development you had a significant part very recently is proceeding on right lines. I am grateful to you for your good wishes and the inspiration you gave us by your presence in far away Karaikudi.

With kind regards,