trouble you with a request to do something for me. I am in difficulties, and I find it almost impossible for me to put over them without a fresh source of income. About this time in the last year, you were pleased to ask me whether I was willing to re-enter the public service. I think I expressed my unwillingness at the time, but what was then a matter of choice has now become a matter of necessity.
"Trusting to be excused for the trouble
"I remain, &c.
This was what Beadon wrote to him in reply:—
"My dear Pundit,
"I will bear your wishes in mind. But I do not, at present, see any way in which I could find you suitable employment in the public service.
"Yours truly
In the mean time his circumstances grew more embarrassing every day, and he began to seriously think of re-entrance into Public Service on some lucrative employment. About three years after his correspondence with the Lieutenant Governor, referred to above, he was informed, though wrongly, that a Professor of Sanskrit was about to be newly appointed in the Presidency College at Calcutta. He then wrote again to Beadon, praying for the appointment. The letter is quoted below:—
