Dear Krishna,
Please forgive the delay in writing this letter. The new 'Ireland Bill' has had very serious repercussions here and I have been extremely busy.

It would be, of course, a great pleasure to receive you here as the Ambassador of India, and my Government would be glad to welcome you in that capacity. For me it would be a double event, in the first place it would give me great pleasure that the first country to accredit a representative to the Republic of Ireland should be India. In the second place, but by no means least, it would give me great satisfaction to welcome you, an old friend, as Ambassador here. In many ways we both have had the same kind of lives and it is a pleasing coincidence that we should now meet in the relationship of Foreign Minister and Ambassador.

Let me know if you require a more formal confirmation concerning your accredition as ambassador to the Republic of Ireland.