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GANDHI (M.K., 'MAHATMA') Series of five typed letters signed and two autograph postcards signed ("MK Gandhi"), to Harold K. Hales, MP, Stayagraha Ashram, Yeravda Central Prison and elsewhere, the postcards 7 February 1931 and 9 October 1932; the letters 5 September, 12, 20, 31 October, and 1 November 1933
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'A LIVING PEACE CANNOT BE AND NEVER WILL BE BROUGHT ABOUT AT THE POINT OF A BAYONET' – a fine series of letters by Mahatma Gandhi touching on some of his core beliefs. They were written, rather improbably, to Harold Keates Hales (known locally as 'HK'), who had been a school contemporary of Arnold Bennett's and claimed to be the model for 'the Card' of Bennett's eponymous comic novel. Gandhi's letters were written to him during his brief tenure as Conservative MP for Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, during which he devoted much energy to touring the Empire promoting manufacturing industries and trade. Those written in October 1933 are published in Gandhi's Complete Works; we have not traced publication of the others.





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