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I surprised myself when I started crying. Is it? However until God in His Mercy changes it for the better we must get along as well we can.” I turned the page: the next one was blank. Mukerji’s letter from May 1936 ends: “Not a pleasant little world we live in. In the manuscript room above the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in Delhi, I opened the letters where I had left off the day before and I grew anxious as I began to feel the remaining pages in the volume become thinner. I found myself reading these letters like a novel.

There are many ways an archive can tell us a story. Hit hard by poor book sales and worn thin by an exhausting lecture tour, Mukerji described long bouts of depression and begged Nehru for money to return to India. The letters also demonstrate Mukerji’s failing physical and mental health, as well as his growing financial problems during the Great Depression. Even from jail, Nehru apparently answered these letters with food, reviews of Mukerji’s books, and news of the Nehru family.

Thank you to Rimli Bhattacharya for sharing this image of Dhan Gopal Mukherji from the Bangla edition of Gay-Neckand report news of Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Jr., Mukerji’s son and Nehru’s godson.