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Sir Stafford Cripps's Secretary to Sir Reginald Maxwell — arranging the withdrawal of P.C. Joshi's warrant for an interview

GovernmentSecret and Personal

Scan of document 2: Sir Stafford Cripps's Secretary to Sir Reginald Maxwell — arranging the withdrawal of P.C. Joshi's warrant for an interview, 1942-04-06
Browned paper, clean and legible; printed address heading. This is the document that begins the whole warrant-withdrawal sequence in this collection.

Contrast-enhanced derivative. The scan shown by default is the unmodified original, so any reading can be checked honestly.

Date
1942-04-06
From
[Secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps], 3, Queen Victoria Road, New Delhi
To
Sir Reginald [Maxwell], Home Member, Government of India
Classification
Secret and Personal
Page
single sheet, complete
Document type
Letter, "Secret and Personal" (Office of Sir Stafford Cripps, Cripps Mission)

Signatories

  • [name not given]Secretary to Sir Stafford CrippsAutograph signature, a broad flowing hand — illegible; the writer is identified only by the typed designation beneath

Marginalia & annotations

The salutation "Dear Sir Reginald," is written by hand rather than typed. A circled manuscript "not" is inserted at the end of the third paragraph, with a line drawn to its place in the text — a substantive correction reversing the sense of the sentence. Red underline beneath "Secret and Personal". Manuscript "9" upper right. Red archival "2".

Transcript verbatim

                                        3, QUEEN VICTORIA ROAD,
                                              NEW DELHI.
Secret and Personal.

                                        the 6th April, 1942.

[ms.] Dear Sir Reginald,

        With reference to our telephone conversation of
a few minutes ago, the name of the individual is Puran
Chand Joshi, and his friends would like the withdrawal
of the warrant to have effect from midnight 8th/9th
April, 1942. Admittedly this is a day earlier than
was mentioned just now, but it should be possible by
then for the order of withdrawal to have reached all
but the remoter parts of India.

        If we make the dates any later, it might not be
possible to arrange the interview at all.

        Puran Chand's friends have given me an assurance
that any surplus period of the withdrawal of the warrant
after the interview has taken place will not be used
for any activity which Puran Chand would {ms. insertion, circled: not} have undertaken
if no such withdrawal had been in existence.

                        Yours sincerely,

                        [signed, illegible]

                Secretary to Sir Stafford Cripps.