The Danish Peace Academy
GANDHI AND NORDIC COUNTRIES
Collected by E. S. Reddy - EReddy@aol.com and Holger TerpLetter, February 17, 1933
Yeravda Central Prison,
February 17, 1933
My dear child,
Nowadays my time is more than fully occupied. Two clear days have to be given to Harijan to the exclusion of every other work. Therefore brief as they were, my love-letters have to be briefer still. But there is some compensation in that you have my general letter in the form of Harijan.
I know quite well what my visit to London meant to you.166 We do not know God’s hidden ways. If we only submit to Him, He makes us do many things even unconsciously to ourselves. It will be such a joy to me if you never find yourself in the Valley of Despair, for, to be there even for one moment means lack of faith in a living God.
I enclose herewith a letter for John Hoyland.167
Mahadev was delighted to have Tangai’s sweet letter.
Love.
Bapu
Source: My Dear Child, page 99; Collected Works, Volume 53, page 322
166 Gandhi was in London from September 12 to December 5, 1931, to attend the Second Round Table Conference on constitutional reform in India as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress. He visited Birmingham and saw the Menons.
167 This letter is not available. Prof. Hoyland of Quaker College, Woodbrooke, had taught in India for 16 years and was a friend of Gandhi.
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