Rathindranath wrote in his diary, " Father can't get a quiet corner to himself, which has preventing him from doing any serious writing. Whenever he gets a little opportunity he sits down to translate from "Santiniketan". But he can't write the lectures he had wanted to. Sometimes he likes to revise MSS of the "Letters"he has brought with him.He has cut out many and has given me the MSS to make a fresh typed copy of the new selection.The translated portion of "Santiniketan" titled Thought Relics was printed in Mar 1921.
While going to England he wrote many letters addressed to different persons and also wrote a series of letters "Bilet Jatrir Patra". A letter wrote on 19th may contained thoughts relating to the civilisation of a capitalist country;
" The world is comprised of collective and individual entities. If the collective activities narrowed down the individual performance, then the excellence of collective reality subsides. It expresses the want of strength. The European civilisation predicts that the bulk created by the extraction from many, is our allotment. I can not arrange facilities for every body. But these official arrangements of inhuman activities are becoming huge .The human being is gradually being united against such oppression in different forums and at last in the United Nations for a social devotion and are developing their faith. Those who are staying outside this faith are becoming sufferers. Thus the social ideas are evolving over the debris of human dead bodies. And the days are coming when the persons to be exploited will be rarely available and the individual will demand their own share. Today the oppressed are opposing the oppressors....."
Rabindranath did not mention the socialistic revolution of Russia here but the analysis he was developing surely reminds this incident.
The ship reached the port Plymouth of England 21 days after the it left Bombay and that was on 5th June where Pearson and Kedar Nath Dasgupta were waiting to receive them.
Pearson wrote on 9th june;
" We had a long wait at plymouth during which we were able to get a great deal of talk and then we had lovely journey through most beautiful sunny country with the English fields and woods looking at their best.
Here in London we were met by the whole Rothenstein family [at the Paddington station], and came on to the flat in Kensington which Rothenstein had very fortunately been able to secure for Gurudev. There is room for all, including myself ... Mukul, of course, was at the station to meet him and has been often to the flat since."
Some days earlier Mukul Chandra De got himnself admitted in Slade School of London to learn painting there. Rabindranath met Pearson after three years since he left him in Japan in 1917.
