Sanjiban's Correspondence with The Mother

18 December 1933

O my Mother,

I have made two sketches. Have the proportions come out right in the standing one? It has become somewhat clumsy and that is due, I think, to my quickly finishing it. The other one was also quickly done as the model’s time was over and so it is unfinished.

The sitting posture can be finished. It is worth finishing as the proportions are almost all right.

In the standing posture, from the knees down the legs are once more too small, but you might take up the sketch again and correct it, making the legs one good inch longer. Send me these two sketches back when they are finished.

Henceforth I shall try to do one sketch, giving more time and doing slowly.

This is much better, and even if you have not finished in one day, you can continue the next day.

18 December 1933