Two Important Letters

Abstract

This article contains two important letters, one from the well-known Iqbal-Scholar and researcher, Dr. Rahim Bakhsh Shaheen, which he wrote to Dr. Lawrence H. Barfield on 12th May 1984, and the other from Dr. L. H. Barfield’s reply to that letter on 8th August, 1984. Dr. L. H. Barfield was professor in the Department of Ancient History and Archeology at the University of Birmingham. He was the son of Nancy May, daughter of Allama Iqbal’s teacher sir Thomas Arnold. There is also a letter from Allama Iqbal to Nancy May Arnold which he wrote on 11th January 1911. In his letter, Dr. Rahim Bakhsh Shaheen had requested for information about the biographical sketches of Dr. Barfield’s mother Nancy May Arnold, his grandmother Celia May Hickson and grandfather Sir Thomas Arnold.