The Viceroy's House,
New Delhi,
12th June 1947
DEAR MR. GANDHI,
Thank you for your letter of 10/11th June. I am grateful to you
for your comments on current affairs, and I will certainly bear
them in mind.
I doubt whether it would be practicable to make my special staff
work out all the details of the splitting up of the Departments
of the Government of India and a complete allotment of India's assets
and liabilities, but they will do everything in their power to help.
It is a tremendous task and only a fraction of it can be done before
the transfer of power. It is essentially a matter in which there
must be negotiation between the parties concerned.
I am so grateful for your unfailing advice and support and kindness,
which have done so much to sustain me in this difficult task.
Yours sincerely,
MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA
MR. GANDHI
Mahatma Gandhi-Correspondence with the Government - 1944-'47, pp. 258-59