Letter from Abnashi Ram to Frank Stedman Wilson
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Letter from Abnashi Ram to Frank Stedman Wilson, Director of the Department of Foreign Commerce, congratulating Wilson on his position. Ram lays out his proposal for a friendship society between the United States and India, and assures Wilson that Congressman Dalip Singh Saund will stand behind this idea.
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Type: Correspondence
Creator: Abnashi Ram
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Note: Ram met him at U.S. embassy New Delhi during his 1970 visit to India
Feb 28th- 59
Mr Frank Stedman Wilson
Director Investment Development Division
Department of Commerce- Foreign Commerce.
Washington 25 D.C
Dear Frank,
Indeed is was a surprise and a pleasure to have seen you and your family after all these years. Please accept my congratulations at this occasion when you are tackling a very important assignment. Being familiar with your ability integrity and background. As difficult as it may appear to start with, I feel confident that you are the man for the position.
As personally discussed with you, myself have no further ambition for accumilation of worldly possessions, neither I intend to retire in Himalyas and live a saintly life. Good Lord spared me for some reason. There must be some usefulness of my knowledge of the country of my adoption which is also a new home of my children and grand children and also my vast acquaintance of some outstanding persons of the land of my birth -India- along with the education and the familiarity of differant languages on both sides.
To get a job and become a gear in the mechanism of either government does not appeal to me either. I have a definite program, a program to promoted peace and goodwill between our two great countries. That will need public backing and yet the blessings of the both governments. Like a soldier and not as a leader, I feel confident that I can perform a few duties. Each raindrop makes an ocean.
Certain phases of that program have been presented to you. Congressman Saund and a few other outstanding people on both sides and there times to be a demand for it. Realizing that you all are fully occupied in your daily duties, how about giving it a thought and a chance to discuss it further in your spare moments.
I feel confident that Congressman Saund will cooperate fully.
Dearest regards to yourself and Mrs Wilson also the children.
Very truly
Abnashi Ram
Feb 28th- 59
Mr Frank Stedman Wilson
Director Investment Development Division
Department of Commerce- Foreign Commerce.
Washington 25 D.C
Dear Frank,
Indeed is was a surprise and a pleasure to have seen you and your family after all these years. Please accept my congratulations at this occasion when you are tackling a very important assignment. Being familiar with your ability integrity and background. As difficult as it may appear to start with, I feel confident that you are the man for the position.
As personally discussed with you, myself have no further ambition for accumilation of worldly possessions, neither I intend to retire in Himalyas and live a saintly life. Good Lord spared me for some reason. There must be some usefulness of my knowledge of the country of my adoption which is also a new home of my children and grand children and also my vast acquaintance of some outstanding persons of the land of my birth -India- along with the education and the familiarity of differant languages on both sides.
To get a job and become a gear in the mechanism of either government does not appeal to me either. I have a definite program, a program to promoted peace and goodwill between our two great countries. That will need public backing and yet the blessings of the both governments. Like a soldier and not as a leader, I feel confident that I can perform a few duties. Each raindrop makes an ocean.
Certain phases of that program have been presented to you. Congressman Saund and a few other outstanding people on both sides and there times to be a demand for it. Realizing that you all are fully occupied in your daily duties, how about giving it a thought and a chance to discuss it further in your spare moments.
I feel confident that Congressman Saund will cooperate fully.
Dearest regards to yourself and Mrs Wilson also the children.
Very truly
Abnashi Ram
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Collection: Abnashi Ram Materials
Donor: Roshan and Raj Sharma
Item History: 2015-07-23 (created); 2023-01-06 (modified)
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