Letter from Godha Ram Channon
DESCRIPTION
Letter from Godha Ram Channon to unknown recipient (“Daooji”), discussing Daooji’s recent “trouble” with Abnashi Ram, thanking him for a recent letter, and offering to help his sister on her way to St. Paul.
ADDITIONAL METADATA
Date: January 24, 1948
Type: Correspondence
Location: 268 Market Street, San Francisco, California
TRANSCRIPTION
268 Market Street
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Jan. 24, 1948
My Dear Daooji,
Many thanks for your letter of January 12th and I am really very glad to hear from you. You say in your letter that you wrote to me before. As far as I remember I received only one post-card from you, and then not a word. I thought Jeel kidnapped you and she and you both may be hiding in India, and I am surprised to learn that she is not with you. I have not heard anything from her at all. I know she is a very poor correspondent. Some day she may show up here.
I understand from my friend, Mr. Mumtaz’s letter, that you had some difficulty with Abnashi Ram and that you had to come over to Los Angeles and settle that trouble. Maybe I misunderstood him, but I did wonder that you came over and never contacted me.
Now regarding your sister, I will be more than pleased to help her arrival and see that she gets on her way to Saint Paul.
Please let me know how you are getting along there and what is being done in a business way. I am always ready to take a trip to India, but I am waiting for my son’s arrival. He will look after the business while I am away. There is a possibility of my being called by the Government of India for some type of service and therefore I would like to see my son settled down here before I leave. Since I have made connections here I would like to leave my son to take advantage of them.
I have been keeping in close touch with events in India. We have really been passing through a critical time. It is the duty of every patriotic Indian to support the present government and help it to carry on its program of building up the country, so we may be able to get rid of poverty, misery and disease.
With kindest regards,
Yours very sincerely,
Godha Ram Channon.
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Jan. 24, 1948
My Dear Daooji,
Many thanks for your letter of January 12th and I am really very glad to hear from you. You say in your letter that you wrote to me before. As far as I remember I received only one post-card from you, and then not a word. I thought Jeel kidnapped you and she and you both may be hiding in India, and I am surprised to learn that she is not with you. I have not heard anything from her at all. I know she is a very poor correspondent. Some day she may show up here.
I understand from my friend, Mr. Mumtaz’s letter, that you had some difficulty with Abnashi Ram and that you had to come over to Los Angeles and settle that trouble. Maybe I misunderstood him, but I did wonder that you came over and never contacted me.
Now regarding your sister, I will be more than pleased to help her arrival and see that she gets on her way to Saint Paul.
Please let me know how you are getting along there and what is being done in a business way. I am always ready to take a trip to India, but I am waiting for my son’s arrival. He will look after the business while I am away. There is a possibility of my being called by the Government of India for some type of service and therefore I would like to see my son settled down here before I leave. Since I have made connections here I would like to leave my son to take advantage of them.
I have been keeping in close touch with events in India. We have really been passing through a critical time. It is the duty of every patriotic Indian to support the present government and help it to carry on its program of building up the country, so we may be able to get rid of poverty, misery and disease.
With kindest regards,
Yours very sincerely,
Godha Ram Channon.
PROVENANCE
Collection: Godha Ram Channon, Papers of
Item History: 2016-09-05 (created); 2023-01-14 (modified)
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