Letters of Subhash Chandra Bose and other memoirs on display at the Netaji Birthplace Museum in Cuttack. Picture by Badrika Nath Das

Cuttack, Oct. 2: The Netaji Birthplace Museum here will showcase rare relics that will convey Subhash Chandra Bose’s relationship with his father.

Letters written by Netaji to his father Janaki Nath Bose, which throw light on the frame of his mind and failing health while in prison for most part of 1920s, will be soon made available to the public by the museum trust in a booklet form.

The letters in the booklet will include dispatches from the Presidency Jail, Mandalay Central Jail, Rangoon Central Jail and Insein Central Jail between December 1921 and April 1927.

All the letters, which were “censored and released”, at present form part of a gallery designed as a prototype of a prison cell of that era at the museum.

The letters, all written in English, reflect the bond Netaji shared with his father.

“These rare letters have been displayed at the museum since January 2009. But very few people know about the contents of the letter. Netaji Birth Place Museum Trust aims to disseminate them in printed form by way of booklet for visitors,” secretary of the trust B.P. Ray told The Telegraph.

In all 23 letters of Netaji are on display at the museum. “In the first phase, 13 letters will be printed in the booklet that will be put on sale. The process has already started. The booklet is expected to be ready on the occasion of Netaji’s birth anniversary on January 23, 2014,” said Ray, who is also the museum director.

The booklet will contain the copy of the original letters along with direct text reprint.

The correspondence with his father shows that during these years Netaji’s “connection with outside world” was “practically cut off”. He was “not given any newspaper”.

On December 12, 1921, Subhash wrote from Presidency Jail: “I am prepared for the worst and I feel it would be a great privilege to be allowed to suffer for a cause which to me is dear”. He was then “confident that Swaraj is at hand”.

While waiting for definite diagnosis after undergoing various medical tests at the Rangoon Central Jail on January 20, 1927 Subhash wrote: “The difficulty is that so far they have not been able to account for certain persistent symptoms such as — continued loss of weight, afternoon temperature, pain in the spine and night sweat”.

“What is Cuttack like this summer?” Subhash queried about his birthplace as he wrote from Mandalay Jail on June 13, 1925.

Between January 26, 1926 and May 21, 1926 he apparently wrote four letters to his father from Mandalay Central Jail mostly enquiring about other members of the Bose family.

On December 12, 1926, he was at the Rangoon Central Jail, but by April 13, 1927 he had been shifted to the Insein Jail.