But the devotees did not possess any data on your three meetings with Baba on board the Rajputana and subsequent developments. Naturally, they approached me and I gave them some fragments, because all that was exchanged during the meetings was not meant for the press.
Based on information gathered, the fellow devotees made a rough draft of a detailed report for press release, and I sent to you only that portion of the report which concerned the Meher Baba & Gandhi meetings and talks for your perusal, corrections, additions and alterations.
You will now gather from this that whatever was decided to be given as a report for the press was formulated with a view to clear up the misunderstanding created all along by the press, which delighted in giving sensational news regarding Baba and his activities and your meetings with Baba.
Our intention was as simple as it was obvious! But from your letter, I find that it has been misconstrued and has given rise to some sort of misunderstanding.
You mention in your letter that "much has been left out," and I agree to this, because it would not do to make public all that transpired during the meetings; and it was not possible to incorporate everything in the general report. But when you mention in your letter that "the meaning had changed," I cannot see any such sign of it and I don't believe it to be so, because I have taken great pains to be specially on the watch to see that nothing in the report should give any exaggerated picture of the happenings, and much less would I tolerate any alterations of meaning or misrepresentation of facts! In spite of all this, you have raised doubts; therefore, please note that I have dropped the matter of submitting the report to the press.
Sometime in the future when we happen to meet, we will personally thrash out this point in order to throw a better light on the issue. Meanwhile I deem it advisable to remain silent on this subject and, according to your wish mentioned in your letter, you may please rest assured that we will not give any report to the press.
At present, we are engrossed in making preparations for Baba's impending trip to the West, either at the beginning or the end of next month.
You hinted in your letter that, "You must have received by now that which I wrote to you in reply to your letter."