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for, to devote his life to the Sitar and Ram this was his place, now he is ready to leave India forever - one week he says he can't write the book on Benares - now he wants to. I cannot depend on him, he is overly involved with himself - bed at 10:30.

April 12 Sun.

Up at 7:00 breakfast bath to tutors at 8:00 meet boy "Batchu" Bose, 24, husky understands English some what - we are going to try working for a week and see how it goes. His family has any brothers Bengali. Home at 11:00 write letter to Joy - lunch - rest out at 4:00 Dasamath Ghat bathers - and Pandit at work dim light, back home at seven. - sec. of Maharaja waiting to take me to the palace just around the corner, literally. Through main gate through a second gate. The palace seems smaller in the night the family is sitting on a huge terrace in a circle of wrought iron chairs, servants hover in the

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dim light, the wife of the late Maharaaja Vigianagram his youngest son, V.N. Singh, his wife, two friends, a light is turned on in the corner of the terrace so they can see me. Examination period. They speak perfect English - the late M. wife asks me about Apollo 13. I of course know nothing. I give my appeal. The sec. then is ordered to show me the palace. Two rooms: outer porch, arched columns, ante room and main hall in typical over done raja-style tons of junk, photos, stuffed animals and a fabulous collection of paintings including bound volumes of the Bamagana[?] - large size about 15" x 10" or larger page size a full page painting on the left and two lines of verse on the right hand page decorated with large flowers two volumes were on display, the sec. said there were others. The paintings looked very fine a complete illustrated version of the Rajhayana[?] It must be worth a fortune by itself. One of the volumes must of had 400 pages alone. There were many other paintings one interesting one of wrestlers and men doing Indian exercises inculding the strange bar weights they have. The main hall