Autograph letter signed.
8vo (125 x 202 mm). 2 pp.
€ 2,500.00
Presenting the young Dilip Kumar Ray (1897-1980), who in time became an influential musician, poet and musicologist: "May I introduce to you Mr. Dilip K Ray. He is late Mr. D. L. Roy's son and as you remember his daughter is married to Sanker".
The playwright and musician D. L. Roy had passed away in 1913, and his daughter Maya Devi was married to Bhava Shankar, Moderate political leader Banerjee's only son. 1919 is the year of Dilip Kumar's visit to Cambridge, where he passed a tripos and studied Western music before embarking in a three-year journey across various European countries, studying the local languages and musical traditions. It is possible, therefore, that the journalist K. C. Roy, the addressee of the letter and founder of the first Indian news agency, was at the moment in the United Kingdom and in a position to assist the newly arrived Dilip Kumar.
Some staining.
