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GANDHI, Mohandas K. (1869-1948). Five autograph letters signed, two typed letters signed ('MK Gandhi' and 'Bapu') and a telegram to Mr and Mrs Khambata, Bombay, Sabarmati and Yeravda Central Prison, Poona, 18 June 1920 - 2 October 1932 and n.d., two in Gujurati, 9 pages, various sizes, in autograph, and 2 pages, 8°, typed (one undated letter with ink acidification and wear to margins). Letters to a fellow radical. The first of the series welcomes the Khambatas' assistance 'in the national undertaking I am endeavouring to popularise'. In later letters Gandhi offers thanks for a contribution to the Orissa distress fund, confesses that he is 'not sure I am justified in accepting your contribution which is evidently not out of an overflowing purse', refers to Khambata's expedition to Europe in pursuit of a cure for his son, and writes from prison in Poona with reference to the dispute over the electoral status of the Untouchables. Gandhi had been arrested in January 1932 in Bombay, and was held without trial in Yeravda Prison until 8 May 1933. At the time of the last letter of this series he had just concluded a 'perpetual fast unto death', which had compelled the British to abandon plans to offer separate elections for Untouchables. (8)