Dear Bhagavan,
Here is the book you helped me to write here during the summer before last. It is a 'war production' intended for young readers, and you may remember that the publishers had sent me, as a sample of that series, a book by the mountaineer. Smythe.
Once more I form the deep wish that after so many years spent in dealing with the external world - as you may see by glancing through my autobiography - I shall now make swift progress in discovering the inner life leading to You.
Yours - Ella.
Sri Ramanasramam, 9-2-43.
Inscription by Ella Maillart in her copy of Cruises and Caravans which she presented to Ramana Maharshi in 1943.
It remains to this day in the Archives at Sri Ramanasramam, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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