(13) The library of the Museum has been my center of interest. Calcutta has made me realize what a severe task the British have in battling with the delicate & governing it, as well as exploiting India. This place is extremely moist & uninviting & is no place for a white man's home. Nine months of heat & moristure & only 3 cool or bearable months give Calcutta its hell. Of the men here are largely bachelors by necessity because British women will not endure the climate. The married men are also virtually bachelors for themselves at home with the children in the hills!