Rabindranath came to England at the beginning of Baishakh when he had no friends there and he became anxious but at the end of Baishakh he got more than sufficient number of friends with which he became tired.
On 11th May, Rabindranath went to the house of Mrs. Boole accompanying Miss. J. Macleod, disciple of Swami Vivekananda. He wrote to Jagadananda;
"Yesterday, we went to the house of a famous Mathematician named Mrs. Boole, aged 82. But she possessed sharp mental strength. She is an widow, her husband was Mr. George Boole, 1815-64, a famous Mathematician. He can create a sense of Geometry to the minds of small children very easily and directly. We shall bring from his teaching method in this respect to Santinketan.
The Indian Majlis of Cambridge invited Rabindranath and Bernard Shaw in one of their get together on 16th May. It was decided that Rabindranath would deliver a lecture there on Indian Religion. Shaw was expected to accompany Tagore . But this was not known to Tagore because he did not hear any thing from Mrs. Shaw when she invited him in a lunch with them on 17th May.
The Cambridge Magazine wrote on 24th May,1913, on his lecture titled " Mr. Tagore on Indian religion";
" On Sunday evening last, Mr. Rabindranath Tagore -- whose book Giatanjali is reviewed on another page -- read a most valuable paper to the Majlis Society on "The ancient Religious Ideals of India." The review expressed in the Magazine reveals that Rabindranath read the "The relation of the individual to the Universe" in a short form.
He met J.D. Anderson ( is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.) in his house on 22nd May who wrote;
"Just a brief line to tell you that I shall always remember with interest and gratitude that St. Mary's Lane. I have since thought of dozens of things I might might have asked, you, but what remain in my mind will be the memory of your voice as you recited your poetry... to hear you speak your own verses was a lesson which I shall never forget."
On 11th May, Rabindranath went to the house of Mrs. Boole accompanying Miss. J. Macleod, disciple of Swami Vivekananda. He wrote to Jagadananda;
"Yesterday, we went to the house of a famous Mathematician named Mrs. Boole, aged 82. But she possessed sharp mental strength. She is an widow, her husband was Mr. George Boole, 1815-64, a famous Mathematician. He can create a sense of Geometry to the minds of small children very easily and directly. We shall bring from his teaching method in this respect to Santinketan.
The Indian Majlis of Cambridge invited Rabindranath and Bernard Shaw in one of their get together on 16th May. It was decided that Rabindranath would deliver a lecture there on Indian Religion. Shaw was expected to accompany Tagore . But this was not known to Tagore because he did not hear any thing from Mrs. Shaw when she invited him in a lunch with them on 17th May.
The Cambridge Magazine wrote on 24th May,1913, on his lecture titled " Mr. Tagore on Indian religion";
" On Sunday evening last, Mr. Rabindranath Tagore -- whose book Giatanjali is reviewed on another page -- read a most valuable paper to the Majlis Society on "The ancient Religious Ideals of India." The review expressed in the Magazine reveals that Rabindranath read the "The relation of the individual to the Universe" in a short form.
He met J.D. Anderson ( is the Curator of Aerodynamics at the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.) in his house on 22nd May who wrote;
"Just a brief line to tell you that I shall always remember with interest and gratitude that St. Mary's Lane. I have since thought of dozens of things I might might have asked, you, but what remain in my mind will be the memory of your voice as you recited your poetry... to hear you speak your own verses was a lesson which I shall never forget."Rabindranath came back to London on 19th May and he delivered a lecture on this day at Caxton Hall. Tickets had been issued for audience as follows;
Sturge Moore congratulated Rabindranath for sending him an invitation card of Caxton Hall.
(Thomas Sturge Moore (March 4, 1870– July 18, 1944) was an English poet, author and artist. He was born on 4 March 1870 and was educated at Dulwich College, the Croydon Art School and Lambeth Art School. He was a long-term friend and correspondent of W. B. Yeats. He was also a playwright, writing a Medea influenced by Yeats' drama and the Japanese Noah style.)
(Thomas Sturge Moore (March 4, 1870– July 18, 1944) was an English poet, author and artist. He was born on 4 March 1870 and was educated at Dulwich College, the Croydon Art School and Lambeth Art School. He was a long-term friend and correspondent of W. B. Yeats. He was also a playwright, writing a Medea influenced by Yeats' drama and the Japanese Noah style.)
