“Before receipt of your letter I had seen a newspaper notice of the death of your venerable father, Babu Ramtanu Lahiri, and it recalled to my mind the occasion on which I first made his acquaintance—namely, the marriage of his daughter at Krishnagar, somewhere about 1867, at which I was present. Babu Ramtanu Lahiri was even then a man advanced in years, and he was one for whom I entertained a great respect, in common with many others of my friends at that station.
“I feel it an honour that his family should so far have remembered the past days of my acquaintance with him as to invite me to the memorial service, and I would certainly have been present had I been in Calcutta. I shall be much obliged by your communicating to the deceased gentleman’s family my sympathy with them in the loss they have sustained.”
13, 14, 15, 16. Professor Norman Chevers, Professor S. Lobb, Professor Rowe, the Hon. Mr Grimley.
Among the English sympathisers with Ramtanu Lahiri in his work of reform in Bengal, the names of these gentlemen ought to be included.
