Period: April – November, 1913 File Summary: For safe handling, this document has been divided into two parts CFD12 – Part I and Part II. The personalities corresponded with in this file include C Andrews, Annie Beasant, PN Bhandarkar, BN Bhajekar, K Natarajan, L Russel, G Parekh, TG Telang, VNC, Dinshaw Wacha, etc. Also included, are letters containing general correspondence between VNC and NGC, where the former describes his stay at London, and occasionally opines on more serious issues like restricting ICS to Indians. This file too contains Letters of Recommendations, from strangers, known individuals, as well as educational institutional and state services. Some letters touch upon social issues like caste, and its equivalents in Jewish and Catholic society, integration of lower castes through education, widow remarriage, and child-marriage. Some letters cover the work undertaken by the Indian Social Reformers, the Depressed Classes Mission Society, and the Prarthana Samaj. Other institutions whose correspondence has been filed include the Theosophical Society, Seva Sadan Society, Aryan Brotherhood, Vidyarthi Mitra, People's Free Reading Room and Library, the National Social Conference, Indian Royal Chronicle. Some letters deal with the State of Indore – like suggestions for administrative improvements, a request to ask Indian ruling Prince’s to subscribe the South African Funds, and the celebration of Lord Hardinge’s birthday.