On the night of 16–17 January 1941, Subhas Chandra Bose secretly left his Elgin Road home in Calcutta and was driven by his nephew, Sisir, in a car up to Gomoh railway junction in Bihar. Before his departure he wrote a few post-dated letters to be mailed on his return to Calcutta in order to give a false impression that he was still at home. Volume 11 of Netaji Bose’s Collected Works opens with one such letter, written to his political colleague Hari Vishnu Kamath, who was then in prison. Two years later, on the eve of setting out on a perilous journey from Europe to Asia on 8 February 1943, Bose wrote a letter to his elder brother, Sarat Chandra, which forms the last item in this volume: ‘Today once again I am embarking on the path of danger. But this time towards home. I may not see the end of the road.’