On 19th June,1920 Rabindranath Started for Oxford with Kedar Nath Dasgupta by train at 1.30 pm.Pearson went there 3 days earlier. In the Station He, Atul Goswami and some students reading in U.K. greeted him.Kedarnath came back to London on the very night and informed Rathindra that his father was shocked at Robert Bridges for his behavior and left Oxford without delivering his lecture.On being requested by Students Bridges refused to Preside over the meeting which he informed to Rabindanath on 15th June but that letter did not reach Rabindanath before his departure to Oxford.Bridges wrote;
" I am delighted to hear that you are really in England again, and am sorry that I do not feel able to accept the invitation , which I have just received, to speak at the meeting in Oxford on Friday[?].
I am writing because I wish very much to see you and talk over matters, especially as I never sent any answer to your several communications since the late disturbances in India. I began a long letter but I feared that you might misunderstand it even more than you could misinterpret my silence. And in England we could not at first rely on the press report of events."
On next day Rabindanath read the essay " Thr message of the Forest " before the students of India and England. The attendance was good though the students had other business.
Rabindranth was first introduced to Austrian Art-expert Dr. Stella Kramrish [1895-1993]. Rabindranath listened lecture of Stella and invited him to join Viswa Bharati.
On 20th June Rabindranath met in a lunch with Col. Laurence.
After a few days on 1st July, Bridges sent a letter apologizing to Rabindranath for not being able to meet him in Oxford.
He came back to London on 21st June and went to Cambridge with Pearson. Rathindranath and Pratima had joined a tea-party with Lady Roberts at her house and went to Cambridge to meet his father. Prof. Anderson Greeted them . They got in the hotel Blue Boar. This was their last meeting because Anderson died on 24th Oct, 1920.Though he had some communication with Rabindranath till 3rd Sep,1920 when he wrote his last letter to Rabindranath.
Rabindra Nath took his lunch with Prof. Lowes Dickinson who wrote a letter to Rabindranath on 19th June addressing him "Sir", the reason for which was mentioned in the letter. " I call you so because I understand that you have not yet succeeded in getting relieved of your unwelcome title ! [Arabinda Mohan] Bose has told me that you are in England and I hope very much I may have the pleasure of meeting you. "
Dickinson requested Rabindranath to publish best books Indian religion made for the readers of UK. On being requested by Dickinson to publish stories of Upanishad, Rathindranath replied ;
" Father said, he has translated most of the Upanishads - one of the best- but he has not published it." Dickinson urged him to do so.
On 22nd June Rabindranath came back to London with his family.
