On 2nd Jan, 1921, Rabindranath read the essay "The meeting of the East an West" in High School of Commerce Hall at 8.15 pm. organised by Community forum of New York.Sujit mukherjee and Biographer of Tagore informed that Rabindranath met Dr. Hellen Keller [1880-1968] on 4th jan,1921 in New York.But Rathindranath said that the meeting took place before he went for X-Mas trip in Catskill Hill. He wrote that the meeting was arranged by Mrs. Walling
(Anna Strunsky Walling-
Note: "Anna Strunsky was born in Babinotz, Russia, on March 21, 1878. With her parents, radicals in old Russia, she came to San Francisco, where she was educated. She was vitally interested in social problems, literature, and the labor movement.Anna and her family lived in the home of her brother, Dr. Max Strunsky. She and her sister Rose were members of a radical group of young Californian writers and artists that included Jack London, Jim Whitaker, George Sterling, and others. The Strunsky sisters were leaders of the intelligentsia that flourished in San Francisco at the turn of the century.
Jack and Anna were regular participants in the activities of the Bay Area socialists. They were very good friends, and at first did not think of each other romantically. Theirs was an affair of two highly intellectual minds with similar ideas and dreams. Anna Strunsky was a powerful influence in the life of Jack London. Except for a short period in 1902 when Jack fell in love with her, they were only very close friends. Anna was never in love with Jack, but always had the deepest respect for him.
By late 1900 their letters about the nature of love evolved into their collaboration on The Kempton-Wace Letters. Jack, as Herbert Wace, would discuss love from the biological point of view; and Anna, as Dane Kempton, would take the idealistic and emotional viewpoint. The Kempton-Wace Letters were published in 1903, and they constitute one of the most interesting and curious books in the whole literature of love."
Date Photographed : March 12, 1955
