GREENWAY

GREENWAY, THE REVEREND CORNELIUS

Letter, February 21,1926²⁸

[ The Unitarian Church in Taunton, Massachusetts, sent greetings to Gandhiji in 1925 and received a reply. The Reverend Cornelius Greenway (1898-1968) pastor of the church wrote to Gandhiji on January 6 1926, that he wished to send some money to be used by him for sick and poor people in India, and ask for the address to which it should be sent. Describing himself as a friend and admirer," he also requested a signed photograph for his personal library.²⁹]

Ashram, Sabarmati
(India)
February 21, 1926

Dear Friend,
I have your letter. What I have given you at the top is my permanent address and remittance you may send to that address will be duly received.
I appreciate your prayers and good wishes of all which this country stands badly in need.
I do not keep any photograph of mine nor have I given a sitting for years, All the photographs therefore that you see are snapshots. I wish therefore you will not want one.

Yours sincerely

Rev. Cornelius Greenway
409, Cohamvet St.
Taunton MASS.

[ The Reverend Greenway wrote another letter to Gandhiji on September 17, 1931, from the All Souls Universalist Church in Brooklyn, NY, where he had moved. He had sent in July 1931 another donation of $25, collected from friends interested in of his Broadcast from London, and said : "We need it desperately for we sing songs of peace and prepare for war." He continued: "When the war broke out in 1917 I was a student and enlisted. Twice was I wounded, once 5 machine gun bullets. I know what war is like and with God's help I hope ever to remain strong enough to denounce War and to further the cause of peace.³⁰