Ambedkar writes that the "steamer carrying my books was torpedoed and the whole of them went to the bottom of the sea," including a set of publications by the "National Monetary Commission of the U.S.A." Ambedkar asks Seligman if he could help in…
Ambedkar thanks Seligman for the letters of introduction and tells him that "they will be of immense use to me." He also tells Seligman "pertaining to [his] dissertation you will be glad to know I have but India for the very purpose of completing it…
Ambedkar introduces to Seligman V. B. Gandhi, "a graduate of the Bombay University in Economics" who "desires to Join Columbia University for Commercial Education."