[Arun Manilal Gandhi, peace activist and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.] Three Typed Letters Signed to the playwright Christopher Fry, concerning his contribution to a book to be titled ‘World Without Violence’.

As a pacifist of Quaker stock the recipient Christopher Fry would have been sympathetic to Gandhi’s goals. See Fry’s entry in the Oxford DNB. The three items in good condition, lightly aged and with slight creasing along one edge. All three 1p, 4to, and signed ‘Arun Gandhi’ and folded twice. ONE: 6 October 1993. He thanks him for his ‘positive response’ to the invitation to ‘contribute a statement for our forthcoming book WORLD WITHOUT VIOLENCE’, to be published to commemorate his grandfather’s 125th birthday. He concludes with details of an extended deadline. TWO: 15 November 1994. He thanks him for agreeing to write an essay for the book: ‘Your words of wisdom for or against Gandhi’s vision will significantly enhance the value of this book’. He continues: ‘It may interest you to know we have received more than a hundred manuscripts from eminent people like the Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Boutros Boutros Ghali, Senator Bill Bradley and others.’ He ends with details of ‘one final extension of the deadline just for you’. THREE: 24 March 1994. ‘We could not find a publisher in the United States for the book “World Without Violence”. We have decided to publish it ourselves. You will receive a promised complementary copy as soon as the book is out.’ There is a ‘proposed Conference on October 1 and 2’, to be ‘hosted by the Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and co-sponsored by the Harvard Divinity School and the Peace Abbey’, and he hopes Fry will ‘plan to attend’. The book ‘World without Violence: Can Gandhi's Vision become Reality?’ was published in New Delhi and London in 1994. From the Christopher Fry papers.